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OSHA Injury Report: Richmond Ambulance Authority

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Richmond Ambulance Authority in Richmond, VA 23220 resulted in days away from work. Employee was eMT in emergency medical transportation services, air or ground.

Establishment
Richmond Ambulance Authority
Parent company
Richmond Ambulance Authority
Street
2400 Hermitage Road
City
Richmond
State
VA
ZIP
23220
On-site location
Ambualnce at hospital
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1

EE had just gotten out of the ambulance as they arrived at the hospital and was walking to the back of ambulance to off load patient and stretcher.

EE opened back ambulance doors to remove [REDACTED] with patient and patient became combative and lunged toward EE and grabbed EE by the neck attempting to strangle choke him.

Strain of muscle fascia and tendon at neck level.

Patient hands around EE neck.

EE had a combative pt that lunged and attempted to strangle EE with one hand

Job description
EMT
SOC code
29-2042 — Emergency Medical Technicians
NAICS code
621910 — Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
226
Total hours worked
40500
Establishment ID
1175629
Employer case #
14
Date of incident
Shift started
17:00:00.000
Submitted
01MAR24:23:00:00

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