What happens when one person is alone with someone dangerous: home visits, live-in care, night shifts, hostel work and lone security.
Each entry is built from the record of what happened: the inquest, the prosecution, the regulator’s notice or the employer’s own investigation. Every page says why the person was working alone, what the employer’s system did or did not do, and where the evidence stops.
If a case involved a crime in someone’s home rather than a lone worker at work, it is not on this shelf.
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A paramedic attacked with a claw hammer as the crew left
A two-person crew inside a Bristol property was attacked with a hammer the patient picked up in the room. It narrowly missed a paramedic's head.
Paramedic punched and kicked in the back of an ambulance
A paramedic was attacked by her patient in the space behind the cab, where there is one door, no way to step back, and no second clinician within…
Paramedic sexually harassed while treating a patient at a bus stop
Two paramedics answered a 999 call for an unconscious man. He abused them from the moment they arrived, and the law treated it as a crime against them…
Attack alarms that did not work in part of an NHS autism unit
Staff at an inpatient autism service were assaulted at a rate the trust's own board papers recorded. The HSE found the alarms they relied on were not working…
A crew who left the house were attacked at their ambulance
The crew did the right thing and withdrew. They withdrew to a parked ambulance, and the patient followed them out with a cleaver.
Two paramedics stabbed seconds after a door was forced
A welfare check at a Wolverhampton maisonette ended with both clinicians stabbed before they were through the door.
Stabbed in a ward kitchen the HSE called fundamentally unsafe
Two nurses were repeatedly stabbed by a newly admitted patient who took a knife from the ward kitchen. No patient specific risk assessment had been done, and the…
Knocked unconscious in a stranger’s house at midnight
A paramedic treating a patient at a house late on a Sunday night was headbutted without warning and knocked out. He had no chance to see it coming.
Pulled out of her car after a home visit
A community mental health worker was dragged from her car and beaten on the walk back from a home visit. The visit was over, and the risk was…
Six ward staff barricaded in an office as patients took the ward
Five patients armed with broken glass took control of a medium-secure ward in the early hours, and six staff spent the night behind an office door until police…
A mob came through the doors of a parked ambulance
He was working alone in the back of a parked ambulance when a gang fight arrived at the door. He got out. The man who climbed in for…
Paramedic grabbed by a bystander as a crowd pressed in
A paramedic treating a woman collapsed at a bus stop was grabbed and sworn at by a man in the crowd who thought the crew was too slow.
Killed on a ward with a broken alarm on the wall
A healthcare assistant was the only member of staff watching a newly sectioned patient. He carried no personal alarm, and the fixed alarm on the wall beside him…