# Fractures at Circles of Care, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231110291` · 11/7/2023 · MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
- **Source:** Patient
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Circles of Care, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 E. Sheridan Rd., MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, 32901
- **NAICS:** 622210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*