Incident date: 2016-08-15
NAICS industry code: 491110

While delivering letters and packages, an employee went up a set of stairs to a customer's house and rang the bell. Suddenly, the employee passed out due to dehydration and fell down the stairs, puncturing his left lung and fracturing a rib. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-outdoors
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate