Independent promoters plan for injuries. There is tape in the bag, ice behind the curtain, and someone in the group chat who knows which urgent care stays open past eleven. The outcome that rarely makes the checklist is the other thing a physical show can produce, which is a police report filed by somebody who was in the building.
The scenarios repeat across the indie scene. A spot lands wrong and the person who took it decides it was not an accident. Two workers who were fine in the ring at nine are arguing in the parking lot at midnight. A fan comes over the barricade and gets put down by security, or by talent. Once officers arrive, the fact that the match was choreographed is context rather than an answer that ends the conversation on the spot. Nevada battery law turns on whether unlawful force was used against another person, and prosecutors do not begin from the assumption that everyone inside a venue consented to whatever happened in it.
Training schools carry a version of the same risk. Students are learning to take contact from people who are also learning how to give it, and the newest wrestler in the room is often the one who reads a stiff forearm as intent. Anybody running a school in the valley ends up mediating disputes with a criminal edge whether they signed up for that or not. The useful response is unglamorous. Write down what happened the same night. Ask the venue how long it keeps camera footage, because on a lot of systems the answer is measured in days. Collect names before the room empties. Keep the locker room off social media, since a post written at two in the morning becomes an exhibit.
One more thing is worth knowing before it matters. Which court a battery allegation lands in depends on where the venue sits, so a show in Henderson and a show off Fremont can put the same night in front of different judges and different prosecutors. Readers who end up on either side of one of these incidents, accused or accusing, may find it useful that a Las Vegas firm handling assault and battery cases in Clark County courts keeps public pages laying out how those charges get graded and which statutes apply to them.
None of this requires running shows scared. It requires the folder that holds the venue insurance certificate to also hold a one page incident form and a phone number, and it requires the locker room to know where that folder lives. Say it at the pre show meeting, in the same breath as the finish and the fire exits.