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OSHA Injury Report: Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC 20007 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was patient Care Technician in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
- Street
- 3800 Reservoir Rd NW
- City
- Washington
- State
- DC
- ZIP
- 20007
- On-site location
- NURSING-MED/SURG
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
was floated to endoscopy suit to learn on IV starts associate missed with 1st attempt she removed the IV needle without deploying the safety mechanism and placed the needle back into the packaging to discard after the IV start. After successful 2nd attempt if IV start associate was cleaning up after IV start and was in the process of cleaning up and associate poked herself on right 1st joint of the thumb. Cannot recall how the needle stick happened. Felt poke through gloves and noticed bleeding on thumb and removed gloves and washed hand and washed hand with sanitizer.
What happened
was floated to endoscopy suit to learn on IV starts associate missed with 1st attempt she removed the IV needle without deploying the safety mechanism and placed the needle back into the packaging to discard after the IV start. After successful 2nd attempt if IV start associate was cleaning up after IV start and was in the process of cleaning up and associate poked herself on right 1st joint of the thumb. Cannot recall how the needle stick happened. Felt poke through gloves and noticed bleeding on thumb and removed gloves and washed hand and washed hand with sanitizer.
Injury or illness
BBP - Percutaneous Contact Thumb Left
Object or substance involved
IV Needle
Summary line
BBP - Percutaneous Contact Thumb Left
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Patient Care Technician
- SOC code
- 31-1131 — Nursing Assistants
- NAICS code
- 622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 5555
- Total hours worked
- 9896220
- Establishment ID
- 1148659
- Employer case #
- 2025-1625
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 13:15
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 19FEB26:18:52:00
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.