Fractures

Name: Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
Start: 12/16/2017

1 hospitalization · 20171211941 · 12/16/2017 · U.S. Postal Service

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Skull
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
Source: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
Secondary source: Mailboxes

Employer

Name: U.S. Postal Service
Location: 15108 279th Pl., DUVALL, WASHINGTON, 98019
NAICS: 491110
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

An employee was delivering mail at a group mailbox next to his vehicle when a package fell and he bent over to retrieve it. The vehicle then began rolling, and his head was caught between the door to the mailbox and the vehicle, resulting in a head laceration and skull fracture. He was hospitalized.

Source

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