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OSHA Injury Report: Medical Examiner's Office

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Medical Examiner's Office in Minneapolis, MN 55487 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was med Exam Technician in general Government.

Establishment
Medical Examiner's Office
Parent company
Hennepin County
Street
300 South Sixth Street
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
ZIP
55487
On-site location
Autopsy Suite
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

While pulling the neck flap back to cut the neck block out I poked myself with the tip of the scalpel blade as I was inserting it to cut the connecting tissues below the tongue

on my left middle finger near the knuckle joint I poked myself with only the top of the scalpel blade approximately a nano meter in size Injury is poke on left middle finger No bloodborne exposure

Needle stick

scalpel blade

While pulling the neck flap back to cut the neck block out I poked myself with the tip of the scalpel blade as I was inserting it to cut the connecting tissues below the tongue

Job description
Med Exam Technician
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
923120 — General Government
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
58
Total hours worked
106699
EIN
416005801
Establishment ID
60379
Employer case #
11954
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00
Time of incident
12:20
Filing year
2024
Submitted
03FEB2025:15:34:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.