CULPEPER, VIRGINIA—
US Postal Service
Slip or trip without fall, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at US Postal Service, 205 S Main Street , CULPEPER, VIRGINIA 22701 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee had delivered a parcel to a house and stepped off the step onto a walkway when she twisted her left ankle. She then tried to catch herself with her right leg and heard a pop. She fractured her right leg in three places and was hospitalized overnight.
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