# Fractures at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2017021355` · 2/10/2017 · SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Cages, cage racks
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 1894 Geary Blvd., SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 94115
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

A transportation driver was attempting to load mail cages onto a trailer and placed them on a lift platform without securing them. When he raised the lift, a cage rolled off and struck the injured employee, who suffered chipped vertebrae.

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