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OSHA Injury Report: Buncombe County-Emergency Services

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Buncombe County-Emergency Services in Asheville, NC 28801 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was eMT Paramedic in emergency medical transportation services, air or ground.

Establishment
Buncombe County-Emergency Services
Parent company
County of Buncombe
Street
200 College Street, 1st Floor
City
Asheville
State
NC
ZIP
28801
On-site location
Mile Marker 14, I240W, Asheville NC 28806
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Employee was providing care to a critical patient in an ambulance.

Paramedic was unable to remember exactly how the injury happened; he just noticed that he had a hole in his gloves and a cut on his right middle finger upon arrival at the hospital. There was also blood from the patient on his gloves. Prescribed medication.

Cut Puncture or Scrape

medical tools

Paramedic was unable to remember exactly how the injury happened he just noticed that he had a hole in his gloves and a cut on his right middle finger upon arrival at the hospital. There was also blood from the patient on his gloves. Prescribed medicatio

Job description
EMT Paramedic
SOC code
29-2043 — Paramedics
NAICS code
621910 — Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
210
Total hours worked
525379
EIN
566000279
Establishment ID
997134
Employer case #
W00460741
Date of incident
Shift started
7:39
Time of incident
15:33
Filing year
2025
Submitted
28JAN26:17:25:00

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.