Quakertown, PA ·
OSHA Injury Report: St. Luke's Quakertown & Upper Bucks Hospitals
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at St. Luke's Quakertown & Upper Bucks Hospitals in 1021 Park Avenue, Quakertown, PA 18951 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was registered nurse in healthcare.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- St. Luke's Quakertown & Upper Bucks Hospitals
- Parent company
- St.Luke's University Health Network
- Street
- 1021 Park Avenue
- City
- Quakertown
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 18951
- On-site location
- MED SURG 3RD FLOOR
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 9
Before the incident
PATIENT ASSISTANCE
What happened
EMPLOYEE ASSISTED PATIENT WITH CHANGING FROM LAYING POSITION IN BED TO MOVING TO THE BEDSIDE CHAIR WHEN ASSISTING PATIENT SO THE SIDE OF THE BED PCA WAS SWINGING PTS LEGS AROUND WHILE RN SUPPORTED PTS BACK BY PULLING IN TO THE LEFT AND KEEPING IT UPRIGHT TO PREVENT THEM FROM FALLING BACK AND HURTING THEMSELVES WHILE ASSISTING THE PT WITH KEEPING AN UPRIGHT POSTURE EMPLOYEE FELT AN IMMEDIATE SHOCK IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BACK
Injury or illness
STRAIN BACK LOWER
Object or substance involved
PATIENT
Summary line
STRAIN BACK LOWER LUMBAR SACRAL PATIENT LIFT
Employee and industry
- Job description
- REGISTERED NURSE
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: Healthcare
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 734
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 1,007,796
- EIN
- 231352203
- Establishment ID
- 1180861
- Employer case #
- 31
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-01
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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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