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OSHA Injury Report: Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City in Union City, TN 38261 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was lPN in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City
Parent company
Baptist Memorial Healthcare
Street
1201 Bishop St
City
Union City
State
TN
ZIP
38261
On-site location
Surgery
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

assisting in surgery

The employee was recapping a needle during surgery. Surgeon had passed the needle with syringe back to the LPN to be used again shortly. She recapped instead of using the safety mechanism and placing a new needle on the syringe.

needlestick

needle

Needlestick to L thumb

Job description
LPN
SOC code
29-2061 — Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
340
Total hours worked
555524
Establishment ID
1144582
Employer case #
8
Date of incident
Shift started
7:45:00.000
Submitted
23FEB24:14:49:00

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.