# Fractures at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2024076280` · 7/11/2024 · DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Slopes, embankments
- **Secondary source:** Recessed earth structures
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 122 15th Street, DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA, 92014
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

On July 11, 2024, an employee was getting out of a mail vehicle when he tripped between grass and concrete, fell forward down an embankment he was parked next to, and suffered a broken left wrist. He was hospitalized requiring surgery.

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