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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

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Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at USPS, 215 W Main St, BERNE, INDIANA 46711 on — Fractures , affecting the Hip joint(s).

On July 1, 2024, an employee was carrying a mail tub to a different location when she stepped onto a package that was on the ground, causing her to slip and fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured hip that required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Other constructed surface

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

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.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

United States Postal Service

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.

United States Postal Services

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.

U.S. Postal Service

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.

U.S. Postal Service

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.

United States Postal Service

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

Department of Veteran Affairs

An employee was walking down a staircase when their heel caught on a stair and they fell, resulting in hospitalization for a punctured lung and broken ribs.

Evansville Marine Service Inc

An employee was standing on the outside edge of a hopper barge while watching a skid steer push ore for an excavator (with a clamshell bucket) to unload. The excavator was on a work barge. The bucket of the excavator struck the employee and caused a near-amputation of their right arm and fractures of the ulna and radius of the left arm. The right arm required surgery.

USPS RPDC

An employee was working to offload a trailer when the dock plate fell and amputated his big toe.

U.S. Postal Service, Mishawaka, IN

On June 26, 2025, an employee was delivering mail on foot when he began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

HORNING ROOFING AND SHEET METAL COMPANY

The injured employee was performing roofing work with a crew. A mop was being used to apply tar to the roof. Hot tar splashed onto the injured employee's left hand. The back of their hand was burned.