CHARLESTON, WV —
OSHA Injury Report: CHARLESTON_1441288
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at CHARLESTON_1441288 in CHARLESTON, WV 25309 resulted in days away from work. Employee was mAIL HANDLER in mail and Parcel Delivery.
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
- Submitted
- 01MAR24:23:23:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.