Libertyville, IL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Advocate Condell Medical Center
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Advocate Condell Medical Center in 801 South Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, IL 60048 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was technologistsurgical in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Advocate Condell Medical Center
- Parent company
- Advocate Health Care
- Street
- 801 South Milwaukee Avenue
- City
- Libertyville
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 60048
- On-site location
- OR 8
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 15
Before the incident
Cleaning up after surgery
What happened
I was cleaning up the room after surgery where we did a skin graft for a patient. I was taking apart an instrument called a dermatome. It helps shave skin off for a skin graft. In the center of it is a blade. To take it apart I needed to unscrew the protector for the blade. I was struggling to get it undone because the surgeon over tightened the screws. I asked a coworker [REDACTED] for assistance and he helped me get the screws off. The device is also covered in mineral oil to prevent skin from sticking. The protector for the instrument was stuck and wouldn 't come off. I tried banging the back of a screwdriver to push it off. That did not work. I then tried the corners of the dermatome where the blade is not exposed. It started to come off but somehow the way it came off slide exposing the blade and thus injuring my fingertip slicing half of my nail off and part of the skin. My coworker [REDACTED] brought me 4x4s and I ran to the charge desk to get help on what to do because there wa
Injury or illness
Laceration
Object or substance involved
blade
Summary line
Sliced a portion of my fingertip and nail.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- TECHNOLOGISTSURGICAL
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 2,020
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 3,431,781
- Establishment ID
- 72749
- Employer case #
- 23 016352
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 17:30
- 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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