New Haven, CT ·
OSHA Injury Report: Yale-New Haven Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 6510 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was registered Nurse I in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Parent company
- Yale New Haven Health
- Street
- 20 York Street
- City
- New Haven
- State
- CT
- ZIP
- 6510
- On-site location
- BDNPSC NORTH PAVILION/SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL (YNHH) Floor 15
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Administering heparin injection.
What happened
Needle popped out of patient 's arm and went into my left thumb. Needle seemed to be defective. Bent [REDACTED] afterward.
Injury or illness
Left thumb.. Bleeding bruising
Object or substance involved
Dirty needle.
Summary line
Needlestick to left thumb from contaminated sq injection needle sustained when needle was dislodged from patient 's arm during medication administration.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Registered Nurse I
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 14,100
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 23,822,410
- EIN
- 060646652
- Establishment ID
- 122344
- Employer case #
- Y21767199
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 15:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-13
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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