# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2022098469` · 9/26/2022 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Delivery truck or van
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 3501 Bessie Coleman Boulevard, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33630
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching out of a postal vehicle to put mail in a mailbox. She fell out of the vehicle onto the street and suffered a broken arm that required surgery.

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