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OSHA Injury Report: Swedish American Hospital - 4800

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Swedish American Hospital - 4800 in Rockford, IL 61104 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was pathology assistant in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Swedish American Hospital - 4800
Parent company
UW Health Northern Illinois
Street
1401 E. State Street
City
Rockford
State
IL
ZIP
61104
On-site location
pathology tissue lab
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Changing out cryostat blade

Removed cryostat blade and ran my finger along the blade holder to wipe away debris but there was another blade still in there and I cut my finger on it.

laceration to right index finger

dirty cryostat blade contaminate with bodily fluids

lacerated right index finger with a dirty cryostat blade

Job description
pathology assistant
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
2607
Total hours worked
4677706
EIN
362222696
Establishment ID
1013526
Employer case #
2023-0112
Date of incident
Shift started
9:30:00.000
Time of incident
10:30:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:16:57:00

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.