# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2024020991` · 2/1/2024 · VERNON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Containers  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 3039 Main St., VERNON, FLORIDA, 32462
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were trying to get an oversized package container into the facility. One employee was pushing the container through the dock door when it struck another employee, knocking them into the back wall and onto the cement surface inside the vestibule. The injured employee was hospitalized with a broken left hip and two broken ribs.

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