Mountain Home, AR ·
OSHA Injury Report: Baxter Health
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Baxter Health in 624 Hospital Drive, Mountain Home, AR 72653 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was tech Cert in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Baxter Health
- Parent company
- Baxter County Regional Hospital
- Street
- 624 Hospital Drive
- City
- Mountain Home
- State
- AR
- ZIP
- 72653
- On-site location
- OR decon room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Cleaning dirty instruments
What happened
Employee was taking dirty instruments to decontaminate after a procedure. Employee reached into the basin to throw away sharps and was punctured by the tip of a drain used during the surgical procedure.
Injury or illness
Dirty sharps exposure to right thumb
Object or substance involved
Dirty surgical instrument
Summary line
Puncture to right thumb with a contaminated surgical instrument
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Tech Cert
- SOC code
- 29-2099: Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 2,046
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 3,447,720
- EIN
- 710561765
- Establishment ID
- 297313
- Employer case #
- 218
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:23
- Time of incident
- 15:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-22
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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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