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OSHA Injury Report: HIGH POINTE SURGERY CENTER

Other illness · Other recordable case

On , an other illness at HIGH POINTE SURGERY CENTER in Lake Elmo, MN 55042 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was surgical Technologist in ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding.

Establishment
HIGH POINTE SURGERY CENTER
Parent company
HIGH POINTE SURGERY CENTER
Street
8650 Hudson Blvd N, Suite 235
City
Lake Elmo
State
MN
ZIP
55042
On-site location
Soiled utility room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Other illness (code 6)

Looking for a missing instrument in the soiled utility room employee thought she may have left it on a table and thrown it away. Employee looking through discarded trash.

Employee was looking through trash for missing instrument and was poked by a contaminated instrument that was thrown away.

Contaminated exposure

Arthrex Anchor Instrumentation

Contaminated instrument exposure to finger

Job description
Surgical Technologist
SOC code
29-2055 — Surgical Technologists
NAICS code
621493 — Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
67
Total hours worked
60509
EIN
411890436
Establishment ID
990560
Employer case #
202504
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00
Time of incident
15:08
Filing year
2025
Submitted
09MAR26:20:55:00

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.