Spruce Pine, NC —
OSHA Injury Report: MH Blue Ridge Medical Center, LLLP
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at MH Blue Ridge Medical Center, LLLP in Spruce Pine, NC 28777 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was lab AssistantAide in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- MH Blue Ridge Medical Center, LLLP
- Parent company
- Mission Heatlh
- Street
- 125 Hospital Drive
- City
- Spruce Pine
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28777
- On-site location
- Laboratory (incl. Pathology)
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Phlebotomy
What happened
Employee just finished drawing an outpatient and when she went to discard her sharps she was stuck by an un-capped needle that was already in the sharps sticking up.
Injury or illness
Contaminated Sharp Finger(s)
Object or substance involved
needle
Summary line
Contaminated Sharp Finger(s) needle
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Lab AssistantAide
- SOC code
- 29-2012 — Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- NAICS code
- 622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 517
- Total hours worked
- 513722
- EIN
- 832048759
- Establishment ID
- 595550
- Employer case #
- V27635-360
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:40
- Time of incident
- 8:40
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 11FEB2025:20:48:00
Source
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.