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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 nURSE 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
SICU 77
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Patient 's dressings being changed to Patient 's Right Upper Arm. Packing Iodoform dressing to wounds. As bleeding wounds were being packed with iodoform the iodoform long strips were being cut with a newly opened surgical blade.

As the last bleeding wound was being packed with iodoform and the iodoform strip was being cut the surgical blade stuck my left index finger through the gloved hand causing my finger to bleed.

Puncture

blade

Bleeding of left index finger. Finger washed and alcohol also applied. Informed the charge nurse who notified the nursing supervisor who guided me through next steps of calling Employee Health. Employee [REDACTED] was called and guided me through next [RE

Job description
NURSE
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 017061
Date of incident
Time of incident
14:00:00.000
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.