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OSHA Injury Report: Mercy Regional Medical Center

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Ville Platte, LA 70586 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was phlebotomist in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Mercy Regional Medical Center
Parent company
Mercy Regional Medical Center
Street
800 East Main Street
City
Ville Platte
State
LA
ZIP
70586
On-site location
Laboratory
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Drawing a patient in the ER

After drawing a patient in the ER employee closed the needle and it stuck her in the right hand on the index finger

needle stick

needle

needle stick on right index finger

Job description
Phlebotomist
SOC code
31-9097 — Phlebotomists
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
379
Total hours worked
579022
EIN
824681222
Establishment ID
1261965
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
14:00
Time of incident
14:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
19JAN26:21:31:00

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.