# Fractures at USPS
> OSHA SIR `2017021484` · 2/15/2017 · CLYDE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Shoes, boots, slippers, sandals
## Employer
- **Name:** USPS
- **Location:** on the rural route, CLYDE, TEXAS, 79510
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unhooking her seatbelt while exiting a mail vehicle on a rural route when the shoulder strap fell and hooked onto her shoelace, causing her to fall to the ground and fracture her left hip.

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