Kalamazoo, MI —
OSHA Injury Report: Life EMS Inc.-Kalamazoo
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Life EMS Inc.-Kalamazoo in Kalamazoo, MI 49007 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was paramedic in ambulance services, air or ground.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Life EMS Inc.-Kalamazoo
- Parent company
- Life EMS Ambulance
- Street
- 517 E. North St.
- City
- Kalamazoo
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 49007
- On-site location
- In back of an ambulance
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Treating a mentally ill patient that was combative and fighting with first responders
What happened
The employee gave the patient an intramuscular injection to sedate them and this caused the patient to become more agitated and they started to flail which caused the employee to loose grip of the syringe and it fell with the needle piercing the employees right wrist
Injury or illness
BBP exposure due to sharps injury
Object or substance involved
Contaminated needle
Summary line
Sharps exposure to right wrist
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Paramedic
- SOC code
- 29-2043 — Paramedics
- NAICS code
- 621910 — Ambulance services, air or ground
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 177
- Total hours worked
- 282563
- Establishment ID
- 109302
- Employer case #
- 20
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 16:00
- Time of incident
- 1:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 26JAN26:19:12:00
Source
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.