Athens, GA —
OSHA Injury Report: St. Mary's Health Care System-SMHCS-GA
Other illness · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an other illness at St. Mary's Health Care System-SMHCS-GA in Athens, GA 30606 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was lab Technologist Technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- St. Mary's Health Care System-SMHCS-GA
- Parent company
- Trinity Health
- Street
- 1230 Baxter ST
- City
- Athens
- State
- GA
- ZIP
- 30606
- On-site location
- Laboratory
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Other illness (code 6)
Before the incident
Just getting ready to work.
What happened
Employee was culturing urine specimen later found to contain menngitis bacteria
Injury or illness
All Other Occupational Disease
Object or substance involved
Contact With Infectious Disease
Summary line
At [REDACTED] on [REDACTED] my co worker showed me the growth on plates worked up to rule out of Neisseria species which was actually identified as Neisseria meningitidis I looked at the plates on the bench top without PPE
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Lab Technologist Technician
- SOC code
- 29-2012 — Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- NAICS code
- 622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 1516
- Total hours worked
- 2263598
- Establishment ID
- 1144941
- Employer case #
- GR01W23170
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 8:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 9:00:00.000
- Submitted
- 26FEB24:16:13:00
Source
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.