Memphis, TN ·
OSHA Injury Report: Baptist Memorial Hospital For Women
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Baptist Memorial Hospital For Women in 6225 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was RN in children's hospitals, general.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Baptist Memorial Hospital For Women
- Parent company
- Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
- Street
- 6225 Humphreys Blvd.
- City
- Memphis
- State
- TN
- ZIP
- 38120
- On-site location
- Nursery
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Drawing blood on newborn
What happened
Employee states that she was drawing blood on a newborn and called over her coworker to help pull the blood from the butterfly needle with a syringe. Employee states that a 3 mL luer lock syringe is normally used for this task but no luer lock syringes were available on the unit. The coworker instead used a 10 mL luer slip syringe to collect the blood. The employee and the coworker were standing next to each other around the patient 's bassinet when the coworker attached a 25 G needle to the syringe stuck the needle into the culture bottle and attempted to inject the blood from the syringe into the culture bottle. When the coworker pushed the plunger on the syringe blood squirted out forcefully into the environment. Employee states that blood got on her face shirt and jacket. Employee states blood did not go in her eyes or nose but she is uncertain whether or not blood got in her mouth.
Injury or illness
Employee states that she and a coworker were drawing a patient 's blood. When the coworker injected the blood into the culture bottle blood squirted onto this employee 's face shirt and jacket. Employee is uncertain whether or not blood got in her mouth.
Object or substance involved
Object handled by others
Summary line
Employee states that she and a coworker were drawing a patient 's blood. When the coworker injected the blood into the culture bottle blood squirted onto this employee 's face shirt and jacket. Employee is uncertain whether or not blood got in her mouth.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- RN
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: Children's hospitals, general
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 780
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,361,354
- EIN
- 620123940
- Establishment ID
- 172811
- Employer case #
- 2
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-29
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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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