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OSHA Injury Report: Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE in Mason City, IA 50401 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was medical Staff Physician Resident in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE
Parent company
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center
Street
1000 4th Street SW
City
Mason City
State
IA
ZIP
50401
On-site location
Patient Room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

doing the arterial line procedure

EE stuck self with dirty scalpel while placing line in ICU patient

Puncture Including Human Animal Insect Bite Sting Needlesticks

Contaminated Needle Stick or Other Contaminated Sharps

I was placing an Arterial line alone with my senior resident when I was using a scalpel that we already used to cut sutures it was covered in some blood to cut the drape for placing the sealing tape for the arterial line

Job description
Medical Staff Physician Resident
SOC code
29-1229 — Physicians, All Other
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
1621
Total hours worked
2630639
EIN
311373080
Establishment ID
204605
Employer case #
0023W2520
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
14:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
26FEB26:16:54:00

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.