Incident date: 2022-09-02
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was at the greeter desk outside of the emergency department when a patient was being discharged. The patient punched the employee on the left side of his head. A few seconds later as the employee was walking to the triage area, he fell to the side and his head struck a wall. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate