Van Buren, AR ·
OSHA Injury Report: Baptist Health Medical Center - Van Buren
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Baptist Health Medical Center - Van Buren in 211 Crawford Memorial Drive, Van Buren, AR 72956 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was RN Specialty in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Baptist Health Medical Center - Van Buren
- Parent company
- Baptist Health
- Street
- 211 Crawford Memorial Drive
- City
- Van Buren
- State
- AR
- ZIP
- 72956
- On-site location
- Emergency Department
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee had just given a patient an injection.
What happened
Employee gave IM injection was attempting to close the safety device over the needle using the bed to push the safety device over the needle when the needle bounced forward and stuck in left forearm.
Injury or illness
Dirty needlestick.
Object or substance involved
Dirty hypodermic needle.
Summary line
Employee gave IM injection was attempting to close the safety device over the needle using the bed to push the safety device over the needle when the needle bounced forward and stuck in left forearm.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- RN Specialty
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 41
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 84,580
- EIN
- 825426152
- Establishment ID
- 503215
- Employer case #
- WF-2023-00
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 18:00
- Time of incident
- 23:34
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-24
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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