St Louis, MO —
OSHA Injury Report: Ben Hur Construction Company
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Ben Hur Construction Company in St Louis, MO 63125 resulted in days away from work. Employee was ironworker in structural steel erecting or iron work contractors.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Ben Hur Construction Company
- Parent company
- Ben Hur Construction Company
- Street
- 2191 LeMay Ferry Rd
- City
- St Louis
- State
- MO
- ZIP
- 63125
- On-site location
- ICC Ballroom elevator shaft
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 2
- Days restricted or transferred
- 60
Before the incident
The injured employee was erecting steel members from a single-man swing stage in an elevator shaft.
What happened
Injured employee was working from a single-man swing stage within an elevator shaft. During descent the basket got hung up on a previously installed horizontal tube member. The injured employee attempted to free the basket by putting their leg between the safety rails of the basket and pushing off of an adjacent vertical steel member. When the basket was free from the horizontal tube member it unexpectedly shifted downward resulting in the safety rail dropping onto the injured employee 's leg.
Injury or illness
fracture lower leg
Object or substance involved
single man swing stage basket became caught on vertical steel when basket was freed it shifted downward causing safety rail to drop onto employees leg
Summary line
fracture of left lateral tibial plateau from crush injury
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Ironworker
- SOC code
- 47-2221 — Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- NAICS code
- 238120 — Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 509
- Total hours worked
- 1018518
- EIN
- 430178210
- Establishment ID
- 1464734
- Employer case #
- 25-07
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 9:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 10FEB26:16:30:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.