# Fractures at USPS
> OSHA SIR `2017098845` · 9/15/2017 · MADISON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, unspecified
- **Source:** Hills
## Employer
- **Name:** USPS
- **Location:** customer address, MADISON, WISCONSIN, 53711
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking from house to house delivering mail. As she was walking back through a yard, she fell while walking down an incline, twisting and breaking her right ankle.

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