Waukegan, IL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Lake Behavioral Hospital
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Lake Behavioral Hospital in 2615 Washington Street, Waukegan, IL 60085 resulted in days away from work. Employee was MHT in mental health hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Lake Behavioral Hospital
- Parent company
- Lake Behavioral Hospital
- Street
- 2615 Washington Street
- City
- Waukegan
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 60085
- On-site location
- Dayroom
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
Before the incident
Employee was helping the nurse in giving meds to the patients
What happened
The patient started to get very aggressive and threw his wheelchair across his room as he tried to calm the patient down. So he walked out the room and the patient slammed the door. Then the patient came into the dayroom and made contact with the employee.
Injury or illness
The patient got into the employee face and attacked him by punching him in the face several times. This resulted in blood dripping from the employee 's face head.
Object or substance involved
The patient fist
Summary line
[REDACTED] was punched in the face by a patient
Employee and industry
- Job description
- MHT
- SOC code
- 29-2099: Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
- NAICS code
- 622210: Mental health hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 305
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 475,647
- EIN
- 465500908
- Establishment ID
- 1193535
- Employer case #
- 4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:54
- Time of incident
- 18:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-01
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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