Viroqua, WI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Vernon Health Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Vernon Health Hospital in 507 S. Main Street, Viroqua, WI 54665 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was physician in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Vernon Health Hospital
- Parent company
- Vernon Memorial Healthcare
- Street
- 507 S. Main Street
- City
- Viroqua
- State
- WI
- ZIP
- 54665
- On-site location
- Med/surg
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Performing an intraarticular steroid injection to a patient 's knee with a 22ga needle
What happened
Once injection was completed the employee removed the needle from the patient and failed to deploy the safety device before superficially lacerating his medial left index finger with the needle.
Injury or illness
Superficial laceration to left medial index finger with an exposed needle
Object or substance involved
22ga needle
Summary line
Significant Exposure
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Physician
- SOC code
- 29-1229: Physicians, All Other
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 336
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 531,532
- Establishment ID
- 1074889
- Employer case #
- 20257
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 08:00
- Time of incident
- 14:15
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-20
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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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