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OSHA Injury Report: Audubon County Memorial Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon, IA 50025 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was registered Nurse in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Audubon County Memorial Hospital
Parent company
Audubon County Memorial Hospital & Clinics
Street
515 Pacific Ave Ste 1
City
Audubon
State
IA
ZIP
50025
On-site location
Operating Room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

She was the scrub nurse in surgical breast procedure.

Nurse was standing too close to surgeon during procedure and her hand was in close proximity of the needle. When surgeon was suturing to pull the stitch closed the needle was pointed in her direction and her hand was too close in proximity and it punctured through her glove and broke skin on her left index finger at the knuckle.

Needlestick left index finger at knuckle.

Suture needle

Needle stick right index finger at the knuckle.

Job description
Registered Nurse
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
104
Total hours worked
175873
EIN
426037854
Establishment ID
812459
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:30:00.000
Submitted
17JAN24:20:42:00

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.