St Marys, PA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Penn Highlands Elk
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Penn Highlands Elk in 763 Johnsonburg Road, St Marys, PA 15857 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was lead charge RN in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Penn Highlands Elk
- Parent company
- Elk Regional Health Center DBA Penn Highlands Elk
- Street
- 763 Johnsonburg Road
- City
- St Marys
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 15857
- On-site location
- IMCU
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 106
Before the incident
Employee was doing bedside report
What happened
Employee was assisting with an agitated patient. Patient reached up and grabbed employee 's left hand. Pulled fingers all the way back and would not let go. Other staff had to assist employee with getting fingers out of patient 's hand.
Injury or illness
Strain to left hand and fingers
Object or substance involved
combative patient
Summary line
STRAIN TO LEFT HAND AND FINGERS FROM COMBATIVE PATIENT BENDING BACKWARDS
Employee and industry
- Job description
- LEAD CHARGE RN
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 301
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 333,346
- EIN
- 250585280
- Establishment ID
- 978046
- Employer case #
- PHE-4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-11
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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