Pasadena, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: HCA Houston Southeast
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at HCA Houston Southeast in 4000 Spencer Hwy, Pasadena, TX 77504 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was surgical Technologist Cert in hospital.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- HCA Houston Southeast
- Parent company
- HCA Healthcare Southeast
- Street
- 4000 Spencer Hwy
- City
- Pasadena
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 77504
- On-site location
- Operating Suite Invasive, Inpt.,Outpt.
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
disposing of sharp
What happened
The case had just finished. I was closing the red needle box and the spinal needle bounced out when I pulled the red box off the back table. The needle fell into the back table cover and I was wrapping it for disposal and felt the needle stick me in the abdomen.
Injury or illness
Contaminated Sharp Abdomen
Object or substance involved
contaminated spinal needle
Summary line
Employee closing needle box after procedure and spinal needle bounced out and fell. As employee was wrapping it for disposal had needle stick to the abdomen.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Surgical Technologist Cert
- SOC code
- 29-2055: Surgical Technologists
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospital
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,284
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,248,461
- EIN
- 122371748
- Establishment ID
- 1355569
- Employer case #
- V38340-14
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:30
- 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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