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OSHA Injury Report: Avera Sacred Heart Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

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

Establishment
Avera Sacred Heart Hospital
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
Avg employees
499
Total hours worked
721655
EIN
460225483
Establishment ID
838150
Employer case #
SH2023-000
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
14:00:00.000
Submitted
16FEB24:17:29:00

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.