Rockford, IL —
OSHA Injury Report: Swedish American Hospital - 4800
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Swedish American Hospital - 4800 in Rockford, IL 61104 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was patient care 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
- 20.6670 surgicare room 7
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 15
Before the incident
Helping assist a patient 's legs back into bed in Surgicare room 7 with other staff members.
What happened
The associate states once the patient was lying in bed she helped grabbed the patient 's legs to help boost the patient up in bed. The associate states that the patient required multiple staff members to get the patient in bed due to her weight and being paralyzed. [REDACTED] states when she helped boost the patient 's legs she hit her left knee on something (unsure what object) and it made her left knee overextend backwards. Since the injury she states the pain has not got better and it has been throbbing especially with bending movement.
Injury or illness
Left Knee Struck Object When Boosting Patient Legs causing left knee pain
Object or substance involved
N A
Summary line
knee pain when left knee struck object when helping boost patient 's legs up in bed
Employee and industry
- Job description
- patient care technician
- SOC code
- 31-1131 — Nursing Assistants
- 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 #
- 2023-0126
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 8:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 9:00:00.000
- Submitted
- 28FEB24:19:15:00
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.