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OSHA Injury Report: Mercy Hospital Joplin

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Mercy Hospital Joplin in Joplin, MO 648044524 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was lab Support Technician II in general Medical and Surgical Hospitals.

Establishment
Mercy Hospital Joplin
Parent company
Mercy Health
Street
100 Mercy Way
City
Joplin
State
MO
ZIP
648044524
On-site location
BIRTHING FLOOR PATIENT ROOM
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

disposing sharps in sharp container

I was disposing my sharps in the sharp container in the Pt 's room and when I went open the door of container there was a 25 gauge butterfly needle laying on the door without safety engaged needle stuck right ring finger and blood was expressed

Puncture

BUTTERFLY NEEDLE

I was disposing my sharps in the sharp container in the Pt 's room and when I went open the door of container there was a 25 gauge butterfly needle laying on the door without safety engaged needle stuck right ring finger and blood was expressed

Job description
Lab Support Technician II
SOC code
29-2012 — Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
NAICS code
622110 — General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
1587
Total hours worked
2623400
EIN
270814858
Establishment ID
709108
Employer case #
WC2025100
Date of incident
Shift started
3:00
Time of incident
10:49
Filing year
2025
Submitted
03MAR26:04:45:00

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.