# Fractures at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2021010619` · 1/23/2021 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 2400 DFW TURNPIKE, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75398
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a mail sorting machine when it started up. The employee's left hand was caught between a conveyor belt and a roller, and bones in the hand were broken.

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