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OSHA Injury Report: Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc in Des Moines, IA 50314 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was staff Nurse in hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse).

Establishment
Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc
Street
1111 6th Avenue, 4th Floor Main
City
Des Moines
State
IA
ZIP
50314
On-site location
4th floor
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Preparing medications

I am an agency nurse from Medpro International. I was giving the routine night medications for my patient 440 when I accidentally poke myself with a heparin needle right after giving it to my patient.

Puncture - Right - Fingers(s)

Needle stick

Needle Stick - Right - Fingers(s) - Needle stick

Job description
Staff Nurse
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622310 — Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse)
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
92
Total hours worked
131791
EIN
251855473
Establishment ID
239959
Employer case #
23-066749
Date of incident
Shift started
19:00:00.000
Time of incident
21:45:00.000
Submitted
21FEB24:19:37:00

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.