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OSHA Injury Report: Pacific Diagnostics Laboratories

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Pacific Diagnostics Laboratories in Santa Barbara, CA 93111 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was pathologists Assistant in medical Laboratory.

Establishment
Pacific Diagnostics Laboratories
Parent company
COTTAGE HEALTH
Street
454 South Patterson Avenue
City
Santa Barbara
State
CA
ZIP
93111
On-site location
Pathology
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Dissecting tissue sample

Employee was dissecting a below-knee amputation when she punctured her left ring finger with the tip of the scalpel.

Wound Left ring finger; from finger punctured by tip of scalpel while dissecting tissue sample

Scalpel

Wound Left ring finger; from finger punctured by tip of scalpel while dissecting tissue sample

Job description
Pathologists Assistant
SOC code
29-2012 — Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
NAICS code
621511 — Medical Laboratory
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
363
Total hours worked
530283
Establishment ID
1157779
Employer case #
AAAC000000
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:00:00.000
Submitted
24FEB24:00:10:00

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.