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OSHA Injury Report: Wellstar Paulding Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Wellstar Paulding Hospital in Hiram, GA 30141 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was rN MedSurg Wk III NF DH PH in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Wellstar Paulding Hospital
Parent company
WellStar Health System, Inc.
Street
2518 Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway
City
Hiram
State
GA
ZIP
30141
On-site location
Telemetry 3-PH
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

See description

[REDACTED] RN helping pt to bedside commode as pt received golytely prep. RN assisted pt back to bed and proceeded to take bsc bucket to bathroom to clean it. Pt called out that she needed to go again and was trying to get out of bed by herself. RN proceeded to turn around with bucket and hit right hand on moveable handrail with immediate swelling to right index finger. Proceeded to help pt again to bathroom but unable to bend finger.

Patient Handling

moveable handrail in pt 's bathroom-rail was down

Struck Hit or Injured By Against (NOT Workplace Violence)

Job description
RN MedSurg Wk III NF DH PH
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
1641
Total hours worked
2521889
EIN
581649541
Establishment ID
167639
Employer case #
544730
Date of incident
Shift started
6:45
Time of incident
18:15
Filing year
2025
Submitted
03FEB26:19:02:00

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.