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OSHA Injury Report: Avera Sacred Heart Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in 501 Summit, Yankton, SD 57078 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was nursing Student in general medical and surgical hospitals.

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Parent company
Avera Sacred Heart
Street
501 Summit
City
Yankton
State
SD
ZIP
57078
On-site location
Emergency Dept
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Attempting to start a 20 gauge IV

The catheter kinked the needle wouldn 't fully click back went to unscrew it to screw on a syringe to get labs and the needle stabbed left pointer finger.

Needle Stick; Finger2-Index Left;

IV needle

Needle Stick; Finger2-Index Left; IV needle

Job description
Nursing Student
SOC code
29-1141: Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
499
Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
721,655
EIN
460225483
Establishment ID
838150
Employer case #
SH2023-000
Date of incident
Shift started
07:00
Time of incident
14:00
Filing year
2023
Submitted to OSHA
2024-02-16

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Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.

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