A Florida mental health facility shows ‘a reluctance to protect’ workers, OSHA says

OSHA has proposed a $101,397 fine for a Melbourne, Florida, mental health facility company for what it counted as the third known patient attack on an employee since 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor reported. The citation and notification of penalty with the proposed fine for Circles of Care, 400 E. Sheridan Rd., was posted in May, six months after what Labor described as a patient using “a metal hole punch to strike a mental health technician at a nurse’s workstation in the head, face, hands and arms.” The technician...