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OSHA Injury Report: Swedish American Hospital - 4800

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Swedish American Hospital - 4800 in Rockford, IL 61104 resulted in days away from work. Employee was rN 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
6th floor elevator by GI
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
5
Days restricted or transferred
24

Taking the motorized GI travel cart to the 6th floor GI elevators.

The associate states the travel cart is motorized and she was wheeling it to the elevator. She states the elevator opened up immediately and she attempted to back the travel cart into the elevator and the cart toggle switch got stuck or she may have been pressing it to hard and the cart flew backwards and crushed her right hand in the elevator doorframe.

Nondisplaced Fracture Proximal 4th Metacarpal Right Hand

GI travel cart

fracture 4th metacarpal from GI travel cart

Job description
RN
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
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 #
2023-0146
Date of incident
Shift started
23:30:00.000
Time of incident
0:30:00.000
Submitted
29FEB24:12:54:00

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.