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OSHA Injury Report: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL 60068 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was rN in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Parent company
Advocate Health Care
Street
1775 Dempster Street
City
Park Ridge
State
IL
ZIP
60068
On-site location
MCICU Patient Room 23
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Obtaining AM labs

I was attempting to obtain AM labs on this patient who is intubated and developmentally delayed. When I stuck him initially he jerked his hand away and I attempted to calm him down with therapeutic communication. He was still very anxious and moving his hand. He jerked his hand up as I was attempting to advance the needle further to obtain blood for the samples ordered so I went to remove the needle because the vein had clearly blown and when I did he jerked his hand up again and in attempting to grab his hand to prevent him from trying to grab his ETT I poked myself with the dirty needle.

Puncture

needle

Superficial needle poke to the dorsalis side of my right middle finger. A small amount of blood was notable when I removed my gloves. I washed my finger under water for 5 minutes using soap immediately after.

Job description
RN
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
4599
Total hours worked
7950440
Establishment ID
72879
Employer case #
23 016832
Date of incident
Time of incident
4:30:00.000
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.