Milwaukee, WI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in 945 N. 12th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233 resulted in days away from work. Employee was support services techaide in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Aurora Sinai Medical Center
- Parent company
- Aurora Health Care
- Street
- 945 N. 12th Street
- City
- Milwaukee
- State
- WI
- ZIP
- 53233
- On-site location
- Sinai Emergency Dept room 16
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 7
Before the incident
Patient grabbed needle from nurse and tech made an attempt to grab the patient 's arm and the needle stick prior to going into the patient went through my hand.
What happened
I was asked to help assist with holding down a patient with 4 other staff members. The patient was getting erratic. The medication was to be given IM. The patient was starting to become agitated while getting held down. The patient then grabbed the nurse and grabbed the needle before it was used. In the motion of trying to regain control the needle stick happened. RN Lead was notified right away.
Injury or illness
Puncture
Object or substance involved
clean needle
Summary line
Needle stick went through the hand between the thumb and index finger. Minor bleeding. There was an immediate burning sensation after the poke.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- SUPPORT SERVICES TECHAIDE
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 2,294
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 4,009,610
- EIN
- 390806181
- Establishment ID
- 113976
- Employer case #
- 23 015830
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 17:17
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-23
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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