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 resid st Yr Post Md 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
At patient bedside performing neurovascular assessment of flap
What happened
After having used the tuberculin needle to test the flap for blood flow I went to sheath it with my left hand holding the cover. The needle went into the sheath and through the plastic into my finger.
Injury or illness
Left index finger tip. Bleeding of left index finger
Object or substance involved
Needle
Summary line
Needlestick to left index finger from contaminated tuberculin syringe sustained while recapping needle post using same for circulatory test on surgical flap.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Resid st Yr Post Md
- SOC code
- 00-9900: Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- 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 #
- Y71766476
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 05:30
- Time of incident
- 22:00
- 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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