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Soft tissue injuries unspecified
1 hospitalization · 2025076800 · 7/14/2025 · U.S. Postal Service
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Soft tissue injuries unspecified
Cause
- Event
- Overexertion while materials moving by hand
- Source
- Packages, parcels
- Secondary source
- Source, secondary source unspecified
Employer
- Name
- U.S. Postal Service
- Location
- 270 N Main Street, WEAVERVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 28787
- NAICS
- 491110
- Jurisdiction
- 0
Narrative
An employee reached into a hamper, picked up a package, and was hospitalized with a back injury that caused pain in his lower extremities.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown