Houston, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Texas Children's Hospital West Campus
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus in 18200 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77094 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was physician Asst in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Texas Children's Hospital West Campus
- Parent company
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Street
- 18200 Katy Freeway
- City
- Houston
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 77094
- On-site location
- Operating Room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
ACL surgery graft harvest
What happened
ACL reconstruction surgery was being performed on patient . Quadriceps tendon was harvested successfully from patient by surgeon. Graft was taken by me to the back table to prepare for reimplantation after Arthrex tight rope device was sutured on o the end of the graft. In graft preparation suture with attached needle was passed through the graft multiple times to secure tightrope to the harvested tissue. On the final pass of tying the knot the needle attached to the end of the suture was passed through the graft tissue in order to bury the knot. Quad tendon grafts are tough and some effort was given to pass needle and inadvertently pricked my left index finger tip. I was double gloved. Immediately I let go of needle and graft and left it on the back table. I removed each glove and noted a small prick with blood present. I notified nurse circulator who initiated safety scoop coordinated source blood draw and necessary labs. She personally walked source blood labs to WC Lab on first flo
Injury or illness
Needlestick Contaminated Needle distal palmar end of left index finger
Object or substance involved
Suture needle from Arthrex Tightrope device
Summary line
Quad tendon grafts are tough and some effort was given to pass needle and inadvertently pricked my left index finger tip.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Physician Asst
- SOC code
- 29-1071: Physician Assistants
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,059
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,827,097
- EIN
- 741100555
- Establishment ID
- 1433817
- Employer case #
- 530370
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 15:00
- 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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