Texas Orthopedic Hospital/ 7401 S. Main St./Houston, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Texas Orthopedic Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Texas Orthopedic Hospital/ 7401 S. Main St./Houston, Texas Orthopedic Hospital/ 7401 S. Main St./Houston, TX 77030 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was surgical Tech in orthopedic hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Texas Orthopedic Hospital
- Parent company
- Orthopedic Hospital LTD
- Street
- Texas Orthopedic Hospital/ 7401 S. Main St./Houston
- City
- Texas Orthopedic Hospital/ 7401 S. Main St./Houston
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 77030
- On-site location
- OR 16
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee was setting up dressing when assistant PA handed employee a needle that wasn 't fully protected. The employee was stuck with needle in her left thumb.
What happened
Tech was handed a needle on a needle holder partially protected by PA but the sharp end was out. The sharp end caught the tech 's thumb as she was trying to rotate it on the needle holder to place it in the needlebook. The tech immediately stepped away and took the contaminated needle and needle holder away from the sterile field and notified the nurse and reported to employee health.
Injury or illness
Contaminated Sharp Body part: FingerThumb - Left 1st Joint
Object or substance involved
Needle
Summary line
Needlestick
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Surgical Tech
- SOC code
- 29-2055: Surgical Technologists
- NAICS code
- 622310: Orthopedic hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 619
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 989,656
- EIN
- 760418502
- Establishment ID
- 1024996
- Employer case #
- 2389
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:45
- Time of incident
- 09:55
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-13
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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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