# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2019043774` · 4/12/2019 · TIMBERLAKE, NORTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 545 Helena Moriah Rd., TIMBERLAKE, NORTH CAROLINA, 27583
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

At about 2:15. p.m. on April 12, 2019, a postmaster was on a back dock as empty all-purpose postal containers were being loaded onto a scissor lift to load onto a truck. As the lift was being raised to the level of the truck, one of the containers rolled off and struck the employee in the back, pinning her against the brick wall. She suffered a 2-inch laceration on the top of her head (requiring five staples), a fractured vertebra in her neck, and a concussion.

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