# Fractures at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `20171211948` · 12/16/2017 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 3741, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75042
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering mail at a residence when she slipped and hit her head on the storm door. She stumbled back and fell onto the lawn, fracturing the top vertebrae in her neck.

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