USPS

An employee was unloading his trailer at the dock area when he was struck and run over by a reversing powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee was hospitalized with a crushed left heel, a dislocated ankle, and the removal of skin down to the muscle on his calf.

A mail carrier was delivering mail to a home when a dog broke through a door and bit his head, face, arms, and legs.

At 11:26 a.m., on January 23, 2025, an employee slipped and fell on ice and injured her right ankle. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee slipped on ice in a parking lot and fell. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was performing maintenance on an automated package processing system when a finger on their left hand became caught in the belt. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the distal fingertip.

On May 8, 2021, an employee threw a 5-pound garbage bag into a garbage container and felt a pop in her back, resulting in a back strain.

An employee sustained a hernia while throwing the daily trash into the dumpster.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee was waiting for an operator to bring mail over to a mail sorting machine when she became pinned between the machine and a stack of pallets being pushed by a powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee suffered bruising and swelling on her hips, lower back, knees, and left side; a puncture wound to her left thigh from a machine screw; a crushed right hand with numbness and tingling; numbness to the left big toe; and a right wrist sprain.

An employee was walking back to a carrier case with mail in her hand when she tripped over a tub. Her back overarched as she fell, resulting in a fractured back that required hospitalization.

An employee delivered a package. On her way back to her vehicle she was attacked by two dogs that came from around a corner. She was hospitalized with dog bites.

An employee was struck by a powered industrial truck while traveling through a staging area. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left foot.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.