Incident date: 2023-04-12
NAICS industry code: 711211

An employee was working as an umpire near second base at a baseball game when they were struck in the head by a baseball thrown from the outfield. The employee sustained a subarachnoid hemorrhage, displaced temporal bone, and nondisplaced fracture of the left zygomatic bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury
code_source: title: Balls, pucks
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate