SALEM, Ore. (AP) — No sanctions are planned for the Oregon State Hospital after a patient attack that seriously injured a longtime hospital employee.
The Statesman Journal reports the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division found no violations of workplace safety regulations during a review of the assault.
But the hospital security employee injured in the attack, Rich Dean, told the Salem newspaper he doesn’t agree with the review.
Dean says several security lapses were “glossed over” by workplace safety regulators.
Dean was assaulted last November during the first day of patient evaluations in a section of a new building at the mental hospital in Salem. He suffered a broken ankle, torn rotator cuff, fractured eye socket and other injuries when he was punched and kicked in the face by a jail inmate.
