# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2025065256` · 6/3/2025 · SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 11251 Rancho Carmel Drive, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, 92199
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was delivering mail when she fell approximately 4 feet from the back of her mail truck. The employee sustained a fractured and dislocated left arm that required surgery.

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