Asheville, NC ·
OSHA Injury Report: Buncombe County-Emergency Services
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Buncombe County-Emergency Services in 200 College Street, 1st Floor, Asheville, NC 28801 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was EMT Paramedic in emergency medical transportation services, air or ground.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee was providing care to a critical patient in an ambulance.
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
Cut Puncture or Scrape
Object or substance involved
medical tools
Summary line
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
Employee and industry
- Job description
- EMT Paramedic
- SOC code
- 29-2043: Paramedics
- NAICS code
- 621910: Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 210
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 525,379
- EIN
- 566000279
- Establishment ID
- 997134
- Employer case #
- W00460741
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:39
- Time of incident
- 15:33
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-28
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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