Usps: OSHA inspections and violations

Dec 17, 2024, Plano: Hospitalization · traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified · leg(s) unspecified

Two employees were pushing hampers full of mail to a mail truck. The injured employee was struck in the leg by a wire container that fell out of the other employee's hamper, resulting in a tendon injury.

Sep 14, 2024, Dallas: Hospitalization · heat exhaustion, fatigue · body systems

An employee was on his mail route when he began to feel dizzy and experienced muscle cramps. The employee suffered heat-related illness.

Jun 5, 2024, Fort Worth: Hospitalization · fractures · skull

An employee was delivering mail when he was surrounded by three dogs and began walking backward. He slipped/tripped and fell backward, striking the back of his head on the concrete. He sustained a skull fracture and was hospitalized.

Jul 3, 2023, Bedford: Hospitalization · fractures · multiple body parts, n.e.c.

An employee was loading a vehicle when they tripped and fell off a raised curb. They sustained fractures to both arms and a C12 vertebra that required hospitalization.

Jan 18, 2021, Dallas: Hospitalization · fractures · shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)

An employee was on a dock placing a seal on the doors of a truck trailer when the truck pulled away from the dock, causing the employee to fall 3 feet to the ground below and fracture his right shoulder.

Jan 16, 2017, Fort Worth: Hospitalization · myocardial infarction (heart attack) · body systems

An employee was throwing parcels into carrier separations when he suffered chest pain.