Clinton, IA —
OSHA Injury Report: Mercy Medical Center-North Campus-MHS-IA/NE
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Mercy Medical Center-North Campus-MHS-IA/NE in Clinton, IA 52732 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was surgical Assistant Technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Mercy Medical Center-North Campus-MHS-IA/NE
- Parent company
- MercyOne Clinton
- Street
- 1410 North 4th Street
- City
- Clinton
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 52732
- On-site location
- Surgical Services Operating Room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
I was retracting the surgical site
What happened
Surgeon poked the colleague on the Left arm with a dirty needle when reaching for the needle holder and suture resulting in a puncture to the left arm and blood body fluid exposure.
Injury or illness
Puncture
Object or substance involved
Cut Punctured Scrape Injured By Needle Stick
Summary line
I was holding retractors in a vaginal hysterectomy case while the surgeon was suturing the surgeon reached back to get a needle holder loaded with a suture from the scrub tech as she was bringing the suture to the field it poked me in the upper arm
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Surgical Assistant Technician
- SOC code
- 29-9093 — Surgical Assistants
- NAICS code
- 622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 528
- Total hours worked
- 840170
- EIN
- 421336618
- Establishment ID
- 996760
- Employer case #
- 0022W23171
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:30:00.000
- Time of incident
- 9:00:00.000
- Submitted
- 29FEB24:21:43:00
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.