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OSHA Injury Report: Swedish American Hospital - 4800

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

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.

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
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
15

Helping assist a patient 's legs back into bed in Surgicare room 7 with other staff members.

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.

Left Knee Struck Object When Boosting Patient Legs causing left knee pain

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knee pain when left knee struck object when helping boost patient 's legs up in bed

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
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00:00.000
Time of incident
9:00:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:19:15:00

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.