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OSHA Injury Report: Medical Examiner's Office

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Medical Examiner's Office in Minneapolis, MN 55487 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was med Exam Technician in general Government.

Establishment
Medical Examiner's Office
Parent company
Hennepin County
Street
300 South Sixth Street
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
ZIP
55487
On-site location
Autopsy Suite HCME 14250 County Road 62 Minnetonka MN 55345
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

I was collecting blood from decedent internally was pulling back on the syringe to collect more blood syringe came out tried to pull away to avoid injury and stabbed self in process

Stab wound to left middle finger

Needle stick

60 ml syringe with 15 g needle external layer of extended cuff nitrile gloves cut gloves and lowest layer of regular cuff nitrile gloves

I was collecting blood from decedent internally was pulling back on the syringe to collect more blood syringe came out tried to pull away to avoid injury and stabbed self in process

Job description
Med Exam Technician
SOC code
29-2012 — Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
NAICS code
923120 — General Government
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
62
Total hours worked
109336
EIN
416005801
Establishment ID
60379
Employer case #
12879
Date of incident
Shift started
8:30
Time of incident
10:10
Filing year
2025
Submitted
26JAN26:17:03:00

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.