# Fractures at US Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2016054199` · 5/14/2016 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** US Postal Service
- **Location:** 850 W 12th Ave, DENVER, COLORADO, 80234
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling containers of mail from a tractor-trailer onto an elevated scissor lift. The employee fell through the opening, and a container also fell through the opening on top of him. He suffered a laceration to the back of his head and a neck fracture, requiring hospitalization.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*