Joplin, MO ·
OSHA Injury Report: Mercy Hospital Joplin
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Mercy Hospital Joplin in 100 Mercy Way, Joplin, MO 648044524 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was patient Care AssociatePCA in general Medical and Surgical Hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Mercy Hospital Joplin
- Parent company
- Mercy Health
- Street
- 100 Mercy Way
- City
- Joplin
- State
- MO
- ZIP
- 648044524
- On-site location
- Multiple patient rooms
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
This activity occurred from lifting moving patients.
What happened
The injury is a rib injury. I spoke to my PA and need to get an x-ray to figure out if I have a displaced rib or a fracture. She said either is likely to due me having brittle bone disease. The first time I felt pain that day was early in the morning after lifting a heavy patient. The pain first started in my back but later caused shooting pains to my legs as well. I let the nurse I was working with know and she recommended that I take Tylenol. Throughout the day I was still needed for heavy lifting so continued to do so. Throughout the day the pain in my back got even worse and started radiating to my ribs on the front left side. The incident that I think set it over the edge that day was later in the evening when we got a bariatric patient. There were multiple people in the room assisting transfer this patient over from the gurney to the bed but given the pain I was already having it made it much worse and caused more issues. Not only did the patient have to be transferred to a regul
Injury or illness
Strain
Object or substance involved
REPETITIVE LIFTING OF MULTIPLE PATIENTS
Summary line
Rib and side pain after multiple days of moving and positioning patients
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Patient Care AssociatePCA
- SOC code
- 31-1132: Orderlies
- NAICS code
- 622110: General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,587
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,623,400
- EIN
- 270814858
- Establishment ID
- 709108
- Employer case #
- WC2025100
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 04:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-03-03
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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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