# Fractures at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2025043418` · 4/12/2025 · BRONX, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 5517 Broadway Avenue, BRONX, NEW YORK, 10463
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 3:15 a.m. on April 12, 2025, an employee was putting a pallet of mail onto a postal truck when the pallet shifted. The employee fell back off the truck's lift gate, landed on the floor, and suffered a broken femur. 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*