Coordinators
Mental harm, stress or strain as defined below.
CAUSE CODE EXPLANATIONS
| Use code… | …if this is the cause | Examples include these… | …but not these |
| 1801 | Post-traumatic stress disorder. | Includes development of symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor (e.g., experiencing or witnessing extremely violent actions or death). May be related to mental or physical stressors. | |
| 1802 | Mental stress, mental/physical | A stressful situation results in a physical injury, such as a heart attack | |
| 1803 | Mental stress, physical/mental | A mental condition resulting from physical injury or disease. The employee sustains a physical compensable injury compounded with a mental condition directly resulting from the physical injury. Initially this claim may be coded as a physical injury. At some point, the mental disability becomes more severe than the original physical injury. | |
| 1800 | Psychological (mental stress, mental only) | Mental harm or emotional stress or strain without physical injury or trauma. Including one or more anxiety type stress disorders, except post-traumatic stress disorder. | Post-traumatic stress disorder (1801) |