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OSHA Injury Report: CHARLESTON_1441288

Injury · Days away from work

At a glance

On , an injury at CHARLESTON_1441288 in 1000 CENTRE WAY, CHARLESTON, WV 25309 resulted in days away from work. Employee was mAIL HANDLER in mail and Parcel Delivery.

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Where did this happen?

Establishment
CHARLESTON_1441288
Parent company
US Postal Service
Street
1000 CENTRE WAY
City
CHARLESTON
State
WV
ZIP
25309
On-site location
Dock & platform area

What was the outcome?

Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
7

Before the incident

Unloading a trailer of nested cages.

What happened

employees were unloading a trailer of nested cages on dock door 10. employee went to move a cage that was neatly stacked on the right side of the trailer. He did not notice that when he moved those cages it shifted the cages on the left side of the trailer that were stacked in the opposite direction. 3 Cages fell forward and Hit employee. who threw her arms up as instinct to try to stop the cages from falling. The cages continued to fall and knocked employee to the floor pinning her down. She felt a pop in her knee and could not move her leg without being in pain.

Injury or illness

Head skull brain cranial nerves and cerebral blood vessels-Center- Bruise |Chest including organs-Center- Bruise

Object or substance involved

Cages.

Summary line

Closed Head injury. Musculoskeletal chest pain. Right-sided chest wall pain from falling nested APC 's on truck.

Employee and industry

Job description
MAIL HANDLER
SOC code
43-5051 — Postal Service Clerks
NAICS code
491110 — Mail and Parcel Delivery
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
516
Total hours worked
915424
EIN
41760000
Establishment ID
1212458
Employer case #
2453030

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
7:01:00.000
Time of incident
13:01:00.000
Filing year
2023
Submitted
01MAR24:23:23:00

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.