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OSHA Injury Report: Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale in Carbondale, IL 62901 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was patient Care Technician in hospitals, general pediatric.

Establishment
Memorial Hospital of Carbondale
Street
405 W. Jackson St.
City
Carbondale
State
IL
ZIP
62901
On-site location
4 Surgical, Room 416
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Holding patient 's arm while nurse started IV.

When nurse was poking the patient for the IV the patient turned their head and bit the employee in the right thumb.

Bite to right thumb

Patient

Bite to right thumb due to combative patient incident.

Job description
Patient Care Technician
SOC code
31-1131 — Nursing Assistants
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general pediatric
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
1142
Total hours worked
1989074
Establishment ID
1280158
Employer case #
2025-0091
Date of incident
Shift started
19:00
Time of incident
1:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
27JAN26:17:57:00

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.