Fractures

Name: Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
Start: 8/9/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015085587 · 8/9/2015 · U.S. Postal Service

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hip(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
Source: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
Secondary source: Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: U.S. Postal Service
Location: 1921 Elvis Presley Boulevard, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, 38136
NAICS: 491110
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

The employee was supervising the outbound dock. A PIT operator passed by her towing two over the road (OTR) containers. As the PIT passed, the door of one of the OTRs came open and hit another OTR that was staged near where the employee was standing. That OTR struck the employee causing her to fall to the floor and fracture her hip.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown