Lake Geneva, WI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Walworth Hospital and Medical Center
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Walworth Hospital and Medical Center in N2950 State Rd 67, Lake Geneva, WI 53147 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was surgical Technician in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Walworth Hospital and Medical Center
- Parent company
- Mercy Health System Corporation
- Street
- N2950 State Rd 67
- City
- Lake Geneva
- State
- WI
- ZIP
- 53147
- On-site location
- OR
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
setting up [REDACTED] stand
What happened
He was working as surgical technician in [REDACTED] doing a total knee and while he was working surgeon asked for the first injection. He handed the needle to the surgeon and continued setting up the inserts for the TKA while he was working on the mayo stand the surgeon was not paying attention and went to drop the needle off on the mayo stand and stuck him on the medial side of his right ring finger after having used the needle on the patient.
Injury or illness
Exposure to Blood NEEDLESTICK Finger(s) - Right
Object or substance involved
hollow needle
Summary line
Exposure to Blood NEEDLESTICK Finger(s) - Right
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Surgical Technician
- SOC code
- 29-2055: Surgical Technologists
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 413
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 576,641
- EIN
- 390816848
- Establishment ID
- 1268900
- Employer case #
- 44
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 08:41
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-04
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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