COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State nurse who was reportedly attacked on the job last fall is speaking publicly for the first time, saying she does not believe conditions have improved — even as the hospital points to progress on workplace safety.
“I thought his plan was to kill me. He was that elevated. He was that escalated. He was that angry,” said Sam McLeod, who has worked as a postpartum nurse at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center since 2017. “Scared for my life does not even begin to explain the things that had gone through my head.”
The incident happened on Nov. 6, 2025, when McLeod says she was finishing her shift in the postpartum unit. She walked into what she described as “a full-blown fist fight” between a mother and father of a newborn baby. She says the father was holding his toddler and their newborn…