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OSHA Injury Report: Lees Summit Medical Center

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Lees Summit Medical Center in Lees Summit, MO 64063 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was sterile Processing Technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Lees Summit Medical Center
Parent company
Lees Summit Medical Center
Street
2100 SE Blue Parkway
City
Lees Summit
State
MO
ZIP
64063
On-site location
Operating Suite Invasive Inpt.Outpt.
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
38

employee was running biological tests in sterilizers 2 and 3 and those two carts were still hot.

While loading instrument caskets I touched a hot rack between two carts still warm from biological tests in sterilizers 2 and 3. The hot surface burned the back of my hand.

Burn Hand - Right Employee was seen by CareNow provider

Hot casket

Three carts held trays before sterilizing two were still hot after biological tests while loading instrument caskets on the middle cart my hand brushed the hot rack and was burned

Job description
Sterile Processing Technician
SOC code
31-9093 — Medical Equipment Preparers
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
654
Total hours worked
876594
Establishment ID
1443407
Employer case #
V09724732
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00
Time of incident
9:05
Filing year
2025
Submitted
12FEB26:23:35:00

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.