Fractures

Name: Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
Start: 4/12/2025

1 hospitalization · 2025043418 · 4/12/2025 · U.S. Postal Service

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
Source: Straight trucks, box trucks
Secondary source: Ground, travel, and support surfaces unspecified

Employer

Name: U.S. Postal Service
Location: 5517 Broadway Avenue, BRONX, NEW YORK, 10463
NAICS: 491110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

At about 3:15 a.m. on April 12, 2025, an employee was putting a pallet of mail onto a postal truck when the pallet shifted. The employee fell back off the truck's lift gate, landed on the floor, and suffered a broken femur. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Source

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