Mountain Home, AR —
OSHA Injury Report: Baxter Health
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Baxter Health in Mountain Home, AR 72653 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was cert Surg Tech 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 1
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Assisting with surgery
What happened
Employee was cutting tail off a used suture needle before placing in the sharps count box. Employee slipped and stuck right middle finger with the contaminated suture needle.
Injury or illness
Dirty suture needle stick to right middle finger
Object or substance involved
Dirty suture needle
Summary line
Dirty suture needle stick to right middle finger while assisting with surgery
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Cert Surg Tech
- 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 #
- 225
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:30
- Time of incident
- 12:25
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 22JAN26:14:33:00
Source
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.