On Saturday at 6:09 p.m. state police at Lehighton responded to St. Luke’s Hospital, Carbon Campus, Franklin Township, for a report of a nurse being assaulted.

On scene troopers learned that a 15-year-old female from Effort had assaulted a nurse at the hospital.

The nurse sustained a broken wrist in the incident.

Troopers said the teen will have charges filed against her through the Carbon County Juvenile Probation office.