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OSHA Injury Report: Baxter Health

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Baxter Health in Mountain Home, AR 72653 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was tech Cert in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

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
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Cleaning dirty instruments

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.

Dirty sharps exposure to right thumb

Dirty surgical instrument

Puncture to right thumb with a contaminated surgical instrument

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
Avg employees
2046
Total hours worked
3447720
EIN
710561765
Establishment ID
297313
Employer case #
218
Date of incident
Shift started
6:23
Time of incident
15:45
Filing year
2025
Submitted
22JAN26:14:26:00

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.