Incident date: 2022-05-28
NAICS industry code: 491110

On May 28, 2022, at 4:24 PM, a postal employee was delivering mail to residences. The employee was facing their mail vehicle when a customer came up from behind and assaulted him with a baseball bat. He sustained a broken arm, a bruised kidney, and injuries that required twenty-three staples to the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
code_source: title: Other client or customer
code_nature: title: Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate