# Fractures at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2025054890` · 5/23/2025 · NEWBURGH, INDIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Constructed surface irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 5411 State Route 261, NEWBURGH, INDIANA, 47630
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was getting out of the back of a mail truck and misstepped or stepped on uneven pavement and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a back fracture.

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