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OSHA Injury Report: *Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at *Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA 19141 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was environmental Services Assoc.

Establishment
*Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia
Parent company
Einstein Healthcare Network
Street
5501 Old York Road
City
Philadelphia
State
PA
ZIP
19141
On-site location
EMCP Levy 4 Rm 4213
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Employee was taking a bag of trash to the dumpster when she felt something stick her left lower leg and found a used curved suture needle sticking out of the trash bag.

Employee was taking a bag of trash to the dumpster when she felt something stick her left lower leg and found a used curved suture needle sticking out of the trash bag.

*Contact With Contaminated Hypodermic Needle Left Lower Leg

Suture Needle

Employee was taking a bag of trash to the dumpster when she felt something stick her left lower leg and found a used curved suture needle sticking out of the trash bag.

Job description
Environmental Services Assoc
SOC code
37-2019 — Building Cleaning Workers, All Other
NAICS code
622110
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
6394
Total hours worked
716464
EIN
231396794
Establishment ID
981251
Employer case #
AEMC-2023-
Date of incident
Shift started
15:56:00.000
Time of incident
17:40:00.000
Submitted
19FEB24:21:52:00

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.