"spring on him" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to convey an idea of surprise attack or sudden action taken against someone. Example sentence: The opponent was completely unprepared when they sprang on him.
He participated in each one, though admitting at first with a chuckle that I kind of sprung on him the idea of actually participating in the group.
He successfully argued in court that having this surprise sprung on him was unfair.
When Ripley is about to kill Richard Greenleaf, we are told: "He could have hit Dickie, sprung on him, or kissed him, or thrown him overboard".
So Bob was righteously angered when it was sprung on him that the election date had been brought forward to coincide with the Smile Jamaica show.
As he flew past at one practice, black dreadlocks shaking from underneath his helmet, Concord Coach John Fulton said, "He's got springs on him!" At the same practice, Brittni Halverson, a junior, offered encouragement to her teammates.
Even that tribute — there was a screening of an N.F.L. Network segment, and Harris was presented with a personalized golf bag — had to be sprung on him by surprise.
When his campaign for president began, Mr. Bush made several mksteps on foreign policy, mispronouncing the names of various nationalities and failing a quiz on lesser known world leaders that was sprung on him by a reporter.
Cremer often seemed to be ensuring victory in any game of musical chairs that might be sprung on him, while Davies and Atkinson spend a lot of time sitting, thinking, smoking.
A meeting sprung on him by Brittan, then Trade and Industry Secretary – at the end of which Brittan wagged his finger, saying: "You should withdraw" – attracted controversy, and led to the resignations of both politicians, with the fall of the government only just avoided.
