# Fractures at BCI Steel
> OSHA SIR `2023065055` · 6/8/2023 · LEETSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BCI Steel
- **Location:** 400 Riverpoint Drive, LEETSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15056
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving scrap pipe from a pile to a machine when their left hand was crushed between the pipe and the backstop of the machine. The employee sustained a fracture to his left hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*