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OSHA Injury Report: Lonesome Pine Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Lonesome Pine Hospital in Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was phlebotomist in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Establishment
Lonesome Pine Hospital
Parent company
Ballad Health
Street
1990 Holton Avenue
City
Big Stone Gap
State
VA
ZIP
24219
On-site location
ER patient room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

getting ready to draw blood on combative patient

walked up to the police officer and asked if ok to go in and take blood. Proceeded to explain to patient that I was from the lab and explained step by step what I was doing. He said ok. I stuck the needle in his ac then he started cursing and saying take it out. I tried as fast as I could with him jerking and pulling his arm to untie torniquet and remove the needle and before I could safety the needle he threw his arm in a position that caused me to get a needlestick to my left thumb.

needlestick

23 g butterfly needle

needlestick abduction finger of left thumb

Job description
phlebotomist
SOC code
31-9097 — Phlebotomists
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
152
Total hours worked
278330
EIN
621636465
Establishment ID
657816
Employer case #
49069
Date of incident
Shift started
19:45:00.000
Time of incident
22:25:00.000
Submitted
23JAN24:15:00:00

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.