# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Swedish Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2024054630` · 5/27/2024 · ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Intentional violence by other person  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Patient
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Swedish Medical Center
- **Location:** 501 East Hampden, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO, 80110
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a combative patient in the emergency department when he was nearly struck by the patient and fell sustaining a laceration on his elbow. He was later hospitalized.

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