# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `20171211941` · 12/16/2017 · DUVALL, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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