Incident date: 2019-09-19
NAICS industry code: 238210

The injured employee was building scaffolding in a stairwell when another employee approached from behind, struck him in the back of the head and then pushed him down the stairs, approximately 6 feet. The injured employee was hospitalized with a subdural hematoma, lacerations to the back of the head, lacerations to the face/lips, and contusions to the back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
code_source: title: Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate