OSHA Injury Report: Yakima Valley Hospital WA

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Nursing staff asked for security assistance to remove a discharged patient from hallwayA After approaching the individual myself and another guard notice they were still asleep when trying to wake up the discharged patient the individual then became aggressive by first kicking the other guard once we got theindividual to their feet the discharged patient became aggressive once again and started to resist the patient then grabbed my left hand raised it to his mouth and bit down on it Patient was taken down to the floor and was told since he assaulted staff Yakima police department will be called and he will need to stay untilcleared

What happened

Nursing staff asked for security assistance to remove a discharged patient from hallwayA After approaching the individual myself and another guard notice they were still asleep when trying to wake up the discharged patient the individual then became aggressive by first kicking the other guard once we got theindividual to their feet the discharged patient became aggressive once again and started to resist the patient then grabbed my left hand raised it to his mouth and bit down on it Patient was taken down to the floor and was told since he assaulted staff Yakima police department will be called and he will need to stay untilcleared

Injury or illness

Human Bite

Object or substance involved

Patient

Summary line

Human Bite due to Aggression Violence caused Human Bite

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.