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OSHA Injury Report: Pinckneyville Community Hospital

Other illness · Other recordable case

On , an other illness at Pinckneyville Community Hospital in PINCKNEYVILLE, IL 62274 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was housekeeper in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
Parent company
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
Street
5383 State Route 154
City
PINCKNEYVILLE
State
IL
ZIP
62274
On-site location
Patient Room #5 on Acute Care Floor
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Other illness (code 6)

Attempting to replace sharps container.

Was in patient room #5 on Acute Care floor to replace an overfilled sharps container and it would not shut so EE went to grab a syringe to place it in a new box and the cap fell off and needle stuck right palm. Needle was a blunt tip filter needle used for medication draw up. Needle did not come in contact with patient.

Needlestick to right palm.

Blunt tip filter needle.

Needlestick to right palm

Job description
Housekeeper
SOC code
37-2012 — Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
299
Total hours worked
455962
EIN
376006955
Establishment ID
752660
Employer case #
2
Date of incident
Shift started
14:53:00.000
Time of incident
22:30:00.000
Submitted
04JAN24:20:39:00

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.