# Fractures at U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
> OSHA SIR `2025076481` · 7/6/2025 · SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
- **Location:** 1760 WEST 2100 SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, 84199
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was scanning the placards of pallets of mail bundles when a forklift approached from the opposite side and began lowering and pushing his pallet load forward. It struck the pallet the employee was working on, causing it to shift and strike her. She fell to the ground and sustained a left hip fracture that required surgery.

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