# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2019099797` · 9/19/2019 · PALATINE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 1300 E. Northwest Highway, PALATINE, ILLINOIS, 60095
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was trying to clear a mail jam from a machine when the conveyor pulled his right arm into the machine. He suffered a broken humerus bone to his right arm, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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