BUFFALO, NY ·
OSHA Injury Report: BUFFALO_1441030
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at BUFFALO_1441030 in 1200 WILLIAM ST, BUFFALO, NY 14240 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was mail handler in mail and Parcel Delivery.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- BUFFALO_1441030
- Parent company
- US Postal Service
- Street
- 1200 WILLIAM ST
- City
- BUFFALO
- State
- NY
- ZIP
- 14240
- On-site location
- Outgoing letter secondary
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 6
Before the incident
sweeping MS on [REDACTED]&[REDACTED];[REDACTED]
What happened
While sweeping MS on robot [REDACTED]&[REDACTED] [REDACTED] on [REDACTED] mail handler had picked a tray up from the floor that needed to go into an APC that was [REDACTED] 4 full. When he tried to put the full heavy EMM tray into it he felt a pop in his left wrist as he had it at shoulder level placing it into the APC. This was diagnosed as a sprain.
Injury or illness
Hand-Left- Sprain Strain Twist
Object or substance involved
a fully loaded heavy EMM letter tray
Summary line
Left wrist sprain received a brace to wear & released to return to work the following day with limitations - 10 pound lift restriction
Employee and industry
- Job description
- MAIL HANDLER
- SOC code
- 43-5051: Postal Service Clerks
- NAICS code
- 491110: Mail and Parcel Delivery
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 490
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 856,383
- EIN
- 417600000
- Establishment ID
- 1212427
- Employer case #
- 281669
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 23:00
- Time of incident
- 00:05
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-10
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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