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OSHA Injury Report: Baptist Health Paducah Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Baptist Health Paducah Hospital in Paducah, KY 42003 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was resp Care Therapist II in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Baptist Health Paducah Hospital
Parent company
Baptist Health Systems
Street
2501 Kentucky Ave
City
Paducah
State
KY
ZIP
42003
On-site location
Room 8
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

EE had just drawn an ABG on the source patient when removing the needle the patient jerked this caused the employee to stick herself in her left index finger.

EE had just drawn an ABG on the source patient when removing the needle the patient jerked this caused the employee to stick herself in her left index finger.

Contaminated Sharp

EE had just drawn an ABG on the source patient when removing the needle the patient jerked this caused the employee to stick herself in her left index finger.

EE had just drawn an ABG on the source patient when removing the needle the patient jerked this caused the employee to stick herself in her left index finger.

Job description
Resp Care Therapist II
SOC code
29-1129 — Therapists, All Other
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
1886
Total hours worked
2201460
Establishment ID
802409
Employer case #
S2023-0263
Date of incident
Shift started
5:30:00.000
Time of incident
17:00:00.000
Submitted
20FEB24:18:54:00

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.