San Francisco General Hospital was utterly unprepared to deal with workplace violence when a social worker was fatally stabbed there in December, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health said in issuing a record fine against the facility.
State safety inspectors fined S.F. General $130,500 for seven workplace-violence-prevention violations, six of which were labeled “serious.”
The agency’s investigation, released Wednesday, began less than a week after the Dec. 4 killing of Rangel, a 51-year-old social worker at the hospital’s sexual health clinic, allegedly by a mentally ill patient. Rangel, 51, died from his injuries days after the stabbing…