| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-25 | Brooklyn | Ct | U.S. Postal Service | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was delivering mail when their finger became caught in a steel mailbox door, resulting in a fracture and laceration that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2019-09-07 | Joplin | Missouri | USPS | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was on his route delivering mail when he lost consciousness due to the heat and fell, striking his head on a mailbox. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | Buffalo | New York | U. S. Postal Service | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee pulled into a driveway to deliver parcels that would not fit into a mailbox. The employee got out of their vehicle to retrieve parcels out of the back. As her back was turned, a dog came from behind and bit her right forearm and hand, removing a section of skin from the forearm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-04-13 | Naples | Florida | Southland Employment Services, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
| An employee was stung by a bee while collecting mail from a mailbox. She suffered an allergic reaction and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-02-26 | Marietta | Georgia | Blount Construction Company, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| While sorting mail, an employee tripped over a file box that was sitting in front of the mailboxes. The employee fell, suffering a broken right hip. | |||||
| 2019-01-08 | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking from a front office to a mailbox located outside when the employee slipped and fell to the floor at the front door. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for a fractured right hip. | |||||
| 2018-02-10 | Capac | Michigan | U.S. Postal Service | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was delivering mail via an automobile. As the employee was closing a mailbox with her right index finger, the vehicle began to slide due to snow resulting in amputation of her right index finger. | |||||
| 2017-06-01 | Atlanta | Georgia | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Eye(s) | Vehicle struck object or animal on side of roadway |
| An employee was delivering mail when his vehicle struck a stone mailbox and shattered his right mirror. The mirror glass went into his right eye. | |||||
| 2017-04-14 | North Bergen | New Jersey | GRC Mechanical Services | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was ascending an indoor ladder into an attic space to replace air filters. While on top of the ladder, the employee lost stability and fell off, landing on a metal mailbox case and then the floor. The employee suffered severe pain in the lower back and right leg. | |||||
| 2017-04-05 | Cocoa Beach | Florida | Roc Hospitality, LLC | Leg(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee tripped on a curb near the mailbox causing her to fall to the ground and fracture her right leg. | |||||
| 2017-02-11 | Marion | Massachusett | U. S. Postal Service | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was retrieving mailbox keys from a safe when the safe door closed on and partially amputated his right pinky finger. | |||||
| 2017-01-12 | Whitewater | Wisconsin | AmeriGas Propane, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was delivering mail to a mailbox when she slipped on ice/snow and broke her lower leg. | |||||
| 2016-08-25 | Ridgely | Maryland | USPS - Ridgley | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was delivering mail to a residential home and cut their finger on a mailbox resulting in amputation of the finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-02 | Lufkin | Texas | United States Post Office | Multiple body parts | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee had delivered mail to a mailbox at the front door of a home. As she turned away, two dogs appeared and attacked her, biting her head, right and left arms, and right and left legs. | |||||
| 2016-03-01 | Buffalo | New York | M & T Bank | Brain | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using his pass key to open the door when he hit his head on the mailbox and passed out. | |||||
| 2016-01-07 | Fort Worth | Texas | JLB Contracting LLC | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was loading a pneumatic roller onto a flat bed trailer. Once the roller was centered, the employee attempted to place the roller in park, but hit the wrong lever. The roller started to move in reverse, so the employee tried to put it back into forward. The rear wheels started to spin and the roller fell off the flat bed trailer. The employee held on as the roller was turning over and hit a mailbox. The impact with the mailbox broke the employee's left femur. | |||||
| 2015-11-13 | Hamilton | Ohio | United States Postal Service | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was delivering mail to a private residence and stepped up one step to put mail in a mailbox. As he was turning around to step down, he lost his balance and fell, breaking his right hip. | |||||
| 2015-02-27 | Knoxville | Tennessee | U.S. Postal Service | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was delivering mail to a residence. The mailbox was mounted to the outside of a fence near a gate. A pit-bull/boxer mix that was inside of the fence jumped on the gate, causing it to open. When the dog attacked the employee, she put up her right hand and the dog bit it, resulting in broken bones. She was hospitalized. | |||||