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OSHA Injury Report: Herrin Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Herrin Hospital in Herrin, IL 62948 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was sterile Processing Technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Herrin Hospital
Street
201 South 14th St.
City
Herrin
State
IL
ZIP
62948
On-site location
Sterile Processing department
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Removing racking from sterilizer machine and retrieving ticket of items just sterilized.

As employee was reaching for ticket that details what was just sanitized they bumped their right elbow against rolling rack that was still hot.

Burn to right elbow.

Rolling rack from sterilizing machine.

Burn to right elbow Rolling rack from sterilizing machine.

Job description
Sterile Processing Technician
SOC code
31-9093 — Medical Equipment Preparers
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
740
Total hours worked
1360316
Establishment ID
1280139
Employer case #
2025-0081
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
6:10
Filing year
2025
Submitted
22JAN26:21:22:00

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.