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OSHA Injury Report: Down East Community Hospital

Other illness · Other recordable case

On , an other illness at Down East Community Hospital in Machias, ME 4654 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was phlebotomist in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Down East Community Hospital
Parent company
Down East Community Hospital
Street
11 Hospital Drive
City
Machias
State
ME
ZIP
4654
On-site location
Laboratory
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Other illness (code 6)

Employee drawing blood on a patient and employee got a needle stick in left thumb

Employee drawing blood on a patient and employee got a needle stick in left thumb

BBP exposure

Needle

Employee was removing a IV from a patients arm blood splashed up into the employee 's mouth from the IV.

Job description
Phlebotomist
SOC code
31-9097 — Phlebotomists
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
350
Total hours worked
429395
EIN
010263198
Establishment ID
1274999
Employer case #
13
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
16JAN26:21:09:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.