Incident date: 2025-07-17
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was working to redirect a patient back to their bed when the patient punched the right side of the employee's head/eye area with a closed fist. The employee sustained a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing medical or custodial care
code_source: title: Patient
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate