# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2024054040` · 5/8/2024 · DES MOINES, IOWA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Nonpressurized containers  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 1165 2nd Avenue, DES MOINES, IOWA, 50318
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was on top of an APC to access a radio on a shelf when they slipped and fell to the ground. They sustained three fractured ribs, a fractured right scapula and right clavicle, a knot on top of their head, and a laceration to their left leg.

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