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OSHA Injury Report: Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, IL 60515 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was pHYSICIAN in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
Parent company
Advocate Health Care
Street
3815 Highland Avenue
City
Downers Grove
State
IL
ZIP
60515
On-site location
ED Bed Hallway D
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Believe needle stick occurred when I was placing the completed equipment in the sharps container

I drew the blood - I used the safety activation on the butterfly (21g green butterfly). I also used the vacutainer. I wore gloves. When I completed the draw threw the appropriate equipment in the sharps container I took off my glove and noticed blood in my glove. Looked at my left hand and noticed bleeding from the ulnar aspect of my middle phalanx of my middle finger. Irrigated Cleaned it immediately

Puncture

Needle

Bleeding puncture wound from the ulnar aspect of my middle phalanx of my middle finger. Appeared to puncture at a superficial venule of my finger. Believe needle stick occurred when I was placing the completed equipment in the sharps container

Job description
PHYSICIAN
SOC code
29-1229 — Physicians, All Other
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
2053
Total hours worked
3465665
Establishment ID
72802
Employer case #
23 015872
Date of incident
Time of incident
18:05:00.000
Submitted
23FEB24:20:34:00

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.