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OSHA Injury Report: Advocate Sherman Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, IL 60123 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was rN in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Parent company
Advocate Health Care
Street
1425 North Randall Road
City
Elgin
State
IL
ZIP
60123
On-site location
Department 5A
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Throwing away needle

I gave the patient their Lantus injection in the upper right arm. Upon withdrawing plunger did not close after injection. I went to throw away in sharps container and accidently hit my gloved hand with the needle. I removed my glove and noticed blood to my left thumb.

Puncture

needle

needle stick

Job description
RN
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
1779
Total hours worked
2933105
Establishment ID
72849
Employer case #
24 017552
Date of incident
Time of incident
21:30:00.000
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.