# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at United States Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2025065417` · 6/6/2025 · BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Non-venomous animal bites  except "bugs"
- **Source:** Dogs, canines domestic
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Postal Service
- **Location:** 1258 Washington Street, BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS, 02184
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering mail when a dog charged at him and attacked him, biting him. While escaping from the dog, the gate latch did not engage and he went to climb over the fence; he fell and suffered a broken leg.

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