Incident date: 2019-04-05
NAICS industry code: 621210

An office manager asked an office assistant to circle something on a patient's treatment plan. The assistant responded, then came up behind the office manager and put her arm around the office manager's neck and squeezed. The office manager felt a pop in her neck and was hospitalized with neck pain, and elevated blood pressure and blood sugar.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
code_source: title: Co-worker
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate