Incident date: 2023-11-07
NAICS industry code: 622210

An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate