# Fractures at BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025076923` · 7/17/2025 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
- **Source:** Industrial carrier  powered
- **Secondary source:** Rocks, stone, gravel
## Employer
- **Name:** BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc.
- **Location:** 2250 SW Lower Lake Road, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64501
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a stand-up cart tugger and was returning from delivering a cart of I-beams to a staging area. The vehicle struck a rock on the concrete pad and then suddenly swerved to the left. The employee lost balance and fell out of the vehicle, landing on his hip. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right hip and required surgery.

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