{"id":6311,"date":"2022-08-24T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2022-08-24T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:29:05","slug":"dogs-and-mail-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2022\/08\/24\/dogs-and-mail-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Dogs and Postal Workers: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled relationship between mail carriers and dogs are kind of a clich\u00e9 &#8212; but also a deadly hazard. Two months ago, to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2022\/0602-usps-releases-dog-attack-national-rankings.htm\">National Dog Bite Awareness Week<\/a>, the United States Postal Service released a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2022\/0602-usps-releases-dog-attack-national-rankings.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> that documented more than 5,400 dog attacks on postal employees across the country in 2021. That&#8217;s down from 2019, when there were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2020\/0611-usps-releases-dog-attack-national-rankings.htm#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20DC%20%E2%80%94%20The%20number%20of,than%20400%20fewer%20since%202017.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5,803<\/a> documented attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of dogs and postal workers reached crisis proportions in Florida last week when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/23\/us\/florida-mail-carrier-dog-attack.html?unlocked_article_code=I9iElObI-Qp4vr_9vvzsg0nTGnvkh3aBhDN_74CKn7Vz02_aWO1XmDtDNH9da9BbNkKRd_h6xDCkd87TwReVEbnV0eVJ6TNKLc0P6B8xuRtE432lNbCoc45wwp771FLUwfmL2sFGeuKOzzUM8Kt2tLwQMm9U583ZG9EAEsFy8dAmmEOSZ_8qP-0Qsh1YiAqQduiiqVWZRjycVOeeK13NwJ_HimcZQQdIOcmhfKPf2pHTz7gL1Ysy__ILNNHqn-xqISX8VFgazyXW0ExiXVqjFzuicvsHt8nKTDiDBC0iHTU2UZNeEoLT4j4VwcjK8LEHF8Gqsglmdgk0p_dxwj-VrlQ2Vg&amp;smid=url-share\">pack of dogs killed 61 year old rural mail carrie<\/a>r Pamela Jane Rock. Rock was found<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">screaming for help as she lay on the ground, trying to fend off the dogs, according to the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Several neighbors rushed to help Ms. Rock by trying to pull the dogs off her while another neighbor fired a rifle into the ground, trying to scare them, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When deputies arrived, the sheriff\u2019s office said, they found the dogs behind a fence and Ms. Rock bleeding. They applied three tourniquets to stem her blood loss and took her to a hospital. As they drove her, Ms. Rock went into cardiac arrest, and she died from her injuries the next day,\u00a0Col. Joseph Wells, a spokesman for the sheriff\u2019s office, said at a\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/f5cYv2pMK_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news conference<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Postal Service, Florida had 201 attacks in 2021, up from 199 the previous year.\u00a0 \u00a0Florida has the 8th highest number of dog attacks, following California, Texas,Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and Illinois.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s them of National Dog Bite Awareness Week was \u201cThe USPS Delivers for America \u2014 Deliver for Us by Restraining Your Dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rock&#8217;s death came just two months after the Postal Service&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2022\/0602-usps-releases-dog-attack-national-rankings.htm\">National Dog Bite Awareness Week<\/a> public service campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/04\/06\/dogs-postal-workers\/\">wrote<\/a> about this same issue in 2017, describing how the Postal Service has a number of recommendations for preventing dog bites \u2014 mostly involving recommendations that residents separate aggressive dogs from the front door with the postal worker is delivering a package. \u00a0The Postal Service also asks package recipient to indicate whether they own an animal and that information is provided to the postal worker. Finally, postal workers are given the right to avoid aggressive dogs or areas where they roam:<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service places the safety of its employees as a top priority. If a letter carrier feels threatened by a dog, or if a dog is loose or unleashed, the owner may be asked to pick up mail at a Post Office until the letter carrier is assured the pet has been restrained. If the dog is roaming the neighborhood, the pet owner\u2019s neighbors also may be asked to pick up their mail at the area\u2019s Post Office.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Mail Carrier Hazards<\/h2>\n<p>But rain, sleet, snow and dogs are not the only hazards that postal workers face.\u00a0 Hazards include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/workplace-issues\/safety-and-health\/chemical-and-biological-hazards\">chemical and biological agents<\/a>, traffic incidents\u00a0(e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/local\/valley\/1-dead-1-seriously-injured-in-central-phoenix\/75-bf884781-235e-4bd8-a0b4-0b4c70fc7777\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2022\/07\/21\/jackson-postal-worker-killed-after-suspect-pearl-police-chase-strikes-his-vehicle\/\">here<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/rare.us\/rare-news\/across-the-u-s-a\/postal-worker-dies-117-degree-heat\/\">heat<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/13\/us\/colorado-postal-worker-shot-dead\/index.html\">shootings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled relationship between mail carriers and dogs are kind of a clich\u00e9 &#8212; but also a deadly hazard. Two months ago, to launch National Dog Bite Awareness Week, the United States Postal Service released a report that documented more than 5,400 dog attacks on postal employees across the country in 2021. 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