# Fractures at PAULO PRODUCTS COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2023076021` · 7/7/2023 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PAULO PRODUCTS COMPANY
- **Location:** 5711 West Park Avenue, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63110
- **NAICS:** 332811
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees used a hoist to lift up a scissor lift table so they could troubleshoot the scissor lift table. The injured employee was moving a cylinder underneath the lift table when the lift table fell from the hoist and landed on their left arm resulting in a fractured wrist.

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