Incident date: 2025-04-12
NAICS industry code: 491110

At about 3:15 a.m. on April 12, 2025, an employee was putting a pallet of mail onto a postal truck when the pallet shifted. The employee fell back off the truck's lift gate, landed on the floor, and suffered a broken femur. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Straight trucks, box trucks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate