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
I was holding the patient 's hand I regrabbed the patient 's hand so that the scrub tech could move a wire on the field and the end of the metal pins in the patient 's hand struck through both of my gloves.
What happened
I was holding the patient 's hand so the surgeon could finish dressing the surgical site. The scrub tech was removing a drill wire from the field so I re-grabbed the patient 's hand so that he could remove the drill wire from the field. When I re-grabbed the patient 's hand the end of one of the metal pins pierced through both of my gloves of my right hand.
Injury or illness
Needlestick Contaminated Needle My right palm between my index and thumb.
Object or substance involved
metal pin
Summary line
When I re-grabbed the patient 's hand the end of one of the metal pins pierced through both of my gloves of my right hand.
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 #
- 533841
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 08:20
- 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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