Hialeah, FL ·
OSHA Injury Report: OSHALOC380 Palmetto General Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at OSHALOC380 Palmetto General Hospital in 2001 W 68th Street, Hialeah, FL 33016 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was interventional in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- OSHALOC380 Palmetto General Hospital
- Parent company
- Palmetto General Hospital
- Street
- 2001 W 68th Street
- City
- Hialeah
- State
- FL
- ZIP
- 33016
- On-site location
- Interventional Radiology
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Discarding used needle
What happened
EE finished suturing a patient and when he went to throw the needle away in sharps container he didn 't notice needle was facing outward from other container and was stuck by needle on 2nd digit on right hand.
Injury or illness
Puncture right finger(s) needle stick used needle.
Object or substance involved
Used needle
Summary line
Puncture right finger(s) needle stick used needle.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Interventional
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 1,458
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 2,575,195
- Establishment ID
- 955448
- Employer case #
- 10158
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:30
- Time of incident
- 14:00
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-22
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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