Milan, TN ·
OSHA Injury Report: West Tennessee Healthcare-Milan Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at West Tennessee Healthcare-Milan Hospital in 4039 Highland St., Milan, TN 38358 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was lab technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- West Tennessee Healthcare-Milan Hospital
- Parent company
- West Tennessee Healthcare
- Street
- 4039 Highland St.
- City
- Milan
- State
- TN
- ZIP
- 38358
- On-site location
- 4th Floor Patient Room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Drawing blood on a patient in the patient 's room
What happened
The employee had drawn the patient 's blood using a butterfly needle. She engaged the safety and placed the sharp on her cart so that she could place a bandage over the puncture site. When she went to pick up the sharp she had not gotten the safety fully engaged and it punctured her right ring finger.
Injury or illness
puncture wound to right ring finger.
Object or substance involved
Butterfly needle
Summary line
Right ring finger was punctured with butterfly needle
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Lab technician
- SOC code
- 29-2012: Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 120
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 178,094
- Establishment ID
- 815621
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 22:00
- Time of incident
- 05:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-06
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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