Newport, RI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Newport Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Newport Hospital in 20 Powel Avenue, Newport, RI 2840 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was patient Transport in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Newport Hospital
- Parent company
- Newport Hospital
- Street
- 20 Powel Avenue
- City
- Newport
- State
- RI
- ZIP
- 2840
- On-site location
- ER elevator/ CT room #2
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Transporting a patient from second floor to ultrasound
What happened
In incident #1 I was placing a patient on stretcher into elevator tried to prevent it from hitting back of wall left pinky finger got caught between rail and stretcher handle. Later in shift I was helping slide a patient from CT table. After I unlocked brakes and got behind the stretcher to move someone was putting the sheet back on but I was struck in the stomach by the stretcher.
Injury or illness
Strain finger small - left
Object or substance involved
stretcher and the wall and then stretcher and CT machine
Summary line
#1: Employee was placing a stretcher into the elevator caught left pinky finger between stretcher and the rail. #2: caught between stretcher and CT machine.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Patient Transport
- SOC code
- 31-1132: Orderlies
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,111
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,345,145
- EIN
- 050258914
- Establishment ID
- 1074757
- Employer case #
- S2025-160
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
- 2026-02-03
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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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