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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 physician 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
Operating Room 14
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Exposed provider had made an incision with the scalpel and put the scalpel on table behind him and hit his left hand on the scalpel puncturing his left palm.

Exposed provider had made an incision with the scalpel and put the scalpel on table behind him and hit his left hand on the scalpel puncturing his left palm.

Contaminated Sharp

Exposed provider had made an incision with the scalpel and put the scalpel on table behind him and hit his left hand on the scalpel puncturing his left palm with an 11 blade disposable scalpel.

Exposed provider had made an incision with the scalpel and put the scalpel on table behind him and hit his left hand on the scalpel puncturing his left palm.

Job description
Physician
SOC code
29-1229 — Physicians, 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 #
S2023-0370
Date of incident
Shift started
6:50:00.000
Time of incident
11:50:00.000
Submitted
20FEB24:18:55:00

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.