Incident date: 2019-12-26
NAICS industry code: 491110

On December 26, 2019, while retrieving mail out of a delivery point sequence rack, an employee tripped over a rack door on the floor. The employee fell backwards and landed on the floor, suffering a broken lower-back vertebra. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floor, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate