Wheat Ridge, CO —
OSHA Injury Report: Lutheran Medical Center
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was patient Care Tech in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Lutheran Medical Center
- Parent company
- SCL Health/Intermountain Healthcare
- Street
- 8300 W 38th Ave
- City
- Wheat Ridge
- State
- CO
- ZIP
- 80033
- On-site location
- Pt Room 4414
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Turning and lifting a patient
What happened
Q2 turn attempted to remove wedges by lifting blue lift sheet up underneath patient. While doing this right wrist was bent backwards under the weight of the patient. There was an initial pop followed by shooting pain up to shoulder.
Injury or illness
Sprain Strain Wrist - Right
Object or substance involved
Patient Handling causing Caregiver Harm
Summary line
Caregiver injured wrist completing [REDACTED] turn of patient
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Patient Care Tech
- SOC code
- 31-1131 — Nursing Assistants
- NAICS code
- 622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 3310
- Total hours worked
- 2894604
- EIN
- 840505652
- Establishment ID
- 960165
- Employer case #
- S2024-4436
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 8:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 22FEB2025:02:45:00
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.