# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2024010520` · 1/17/2024 · WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 501 Mercier St. SW, WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, 27893
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was on a customer's porch delivering mail. As they walked down the steps to go back to the truck, the employee fell from the last step and sustained a left leg fracture that required hospitalization.

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