Waterloo, IA —
OSHA Injury Report: Covenant Medical Center
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, IA 50702 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was nurse RN LPN LVN in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Covenant Medical Center
- Parent company
- Trinity Health
- Street
- 3421 W 9th St.
- City
- Waterloo
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 50702
- On-site location
- Emergency Room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Lifting a slide board to place on patient bed.
What happened
Contusion to right thumb when maneuvering slide board in ED room 07 accidentally hitting metal light above causing it to come down landing on nurse 's right thumb. No broken skin.
Injury or illness
Contusion All Other Soft Tissue Incl Inflammation
Object or substance involved
Caught In Between Under Object
Summary line
Nurse was in patient room attempting to use a slide board to move patient to other bed This nurse had lifted slide board to high resulting in striking metal ceiling tile Thus resulting in the ceiling tile coming down and striking this nurse in R thumb
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Nurse RN LPN LVN
- SOC code
- 29-2061 — Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 1447
- Total hours worked
- 2109329
- EIN
- 421264647
- Establishment ID
- 940136
- Employer case #
- MH40W2520
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 14:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 03FEB26:13:50:00
Source
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.