Incident date: 2019-12-16
NAICS industry code: 622210

An employee was bringing belongings into a patient's room when another patient followed him into the room and struck his right temple with his fist. The employee fell, hitting his head on the patient's bed and floor. The employee also struck his tailbone against the floor as he fell. He was hospitalized with head and tailbone injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate