OSHA Injury Report: INDIANAPOLIS MP ANNEX_1432887

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

pushing and pulling mail containers to load into [REDACTED] dumpers.

What happened

The employee was loading the dumpers on [REDACTED] when she experienced a sharp pain on the lower right side of her back. Her right hand also went numb. According to her statements repetitively pushing and pulling extremely overloaded overweight and oversized containers caused the pain in her lower right back and the numbness in her hand. In one of her statements she claimed that numbness in her right hand began when she worked on a different machine the APBS [REDACTED]. In this part of her statement she claimed that several repetitive motions caused the numbness in her right hand. First was Loading containers into the dumpers. Second was using the stick commonly called a sheperd 's hook to pull mail out of the dumper. Third was handling boxes of mail. She specifically mentioned Shein and Kohls boxes as being overloaded.

Injury or illness

Back including spine and dorsal vertebrae-Center- Sprain Strain Twist |Hand-Right- Sprain Strain Twist

Object or substance involved

mail container.

Summary line

nerve damage in right hand

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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.