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OSHA Injury Report: Viera Hospital Inc

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Viera Hospital Inc in Melbourne, FL 32940 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was sterile Processing in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Viera Hospital Inc
Parent company
Health First Inc
Street
8745 N. Wickham Road
City
Melbourne
State
FL
ZIP
32940
On-site location
Decontamination
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Cleaning instruments in decontamination

While cleaning a laproscopic tray in Decontamination I placed my left hand into the water trying to grab stringer instrument a Backhaus towel clamp it was facing upwards in the water and the pointy part struck through my glove and hit my finger in the water and penetrated the skin of my middle finger causing it to bleed.

Went to grab a backhaus towel clamp from decontam solultion and the pointy part stuck through my glove and punctured my L finger.

backhaus towel stringer

Went to grab a backhaus towel clamp from decontam solultion and the pointy part stuck through my glove and punctured my L finger.

Job description
Sterile Processing
SOC code
31-9093 — Medical Equipment Preparers
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
622
Total hours worked
973036
EIN
264019868
Establishment ID
477955
Employer case #
NA-2023-13
Date of incident
Shift started
15:00:00.000
Time of incident
18:00:00.000
Submitted
14FEB24:15:36:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.