Duluth, MN ·
OSHA Injury Report: Aspirus St. Lukes Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Aspirus St. Lukes Hospital in 915 E 1st St, Duluth, MN 55805 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was physician in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Aspirus St. Lukes Hospital
- Parent company
- Aspirus
- Street
- 915 E 1st St
- City
- Duluth
- State
- MN
- ZIP
- 55805
- On-site location
- Intensive Care Unit
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
IV or arterial line insertion removal manipulation
What happened
I had finished successfully placing a central line and was cleaning up the kit and the tray was free of sharps but 1 needle had gotten under the tray and was in the sterile cover and as I picked up the sterile cover needle tip impacted my knuckle of my left hand 4th finger. A very small amount of bleeding was identified. The needle had been used to place the J-wire during the central line placement.
Injury or illness
knuckle of my left hand 4th finger punctured with dirty needle
Object or substance involved
needle
Summary line
Picking up needle in cover. Needle tip impacted knuckle of left 4th finger.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Physician
- SOC code
- 29-1229: Physicians, All Other
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 2,112
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,425,208
- EIN
- 410714079
- Establishment ID
- 1443375
- Employer case #
- EH54223
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 11:35
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-30
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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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