Rockford, IL —
OSHA Injury Report: Swedish American Hospital - 4800
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Swedish American Hospital - 4800 in Rockford, IL 61104 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was medical lab technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- 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
- 20.7030 chemistry department
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
making a microscope slide
What happened
I was in chemistry but heme had an interesting tube that wouldn 't spin down and co-worker came over to talk to me about it to troubleshoot. They spun it 4 times and it wasn 't separating and we weren 't convinced it was blood (weird color weird consistency very odd) so I went over to make a slide (it ended up being blood). I made a slide and looked down to my glove and finger sliced (superficially). I don 't think any blood to blood contact happened but I went to the ER just to be safe.
Injury or illness
Left Thumb Laceration From body fluid contaminated Microscope Slide
Object or substance involved
microscope sllide contaminated with bodily fluids
Summary line
left thumb laceration from contaminated microscope slide
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Medical lab technician
- SOC code
- 29-2012 — Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- 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 #
- 2023-0116
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 15:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 21:30:00.000
- Submitted
- 28FEB24:18:04:00
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.