FORT SMITH, AR ·
OSHA Injury Report: MERCY ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL FORT SMITH
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at MERCY ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL FORT SMITH in 3601 S 79TH ST, FORT SMITH, AR 72903 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was surgical technologist in orthopedic hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- MERCY ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL FORT SMITH
- Parent company
- MERCY HEALTH
- Street
- 3601 S 79TH ST
- City
- FORT SMITH
- State
- AR
- ZIP
- 72903
- On-site location
- SURGERY SUITE
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
bunionectomy; assisting surgeon passing instruments
What happened
During what should have been a 2 scrub case I [alone] was assisting the surgeon by holding the patient 's foot with my left hand while also holding a retractor in my right hand. The surgeon had placed a .09 kwire through the fixation point on the first metatarsal head then proceeded to drill over the kwire with a 2.0 canulated drill bit. The surgeon accidentally drilled too far thereby sending the kwire and drill bit through the patient 's bone skin and into my left index finger palmar side. I was wearing 2 pairs of gloves [on each hand] at the time.
Injury or illness
LACERATION TO FINGER
Object or substance involved
Kirschner k wire and 2.0 cannulated drill bit
Summary line
LACERATION TO FINGER
Employee and industry
- Job description
- SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIST
- SOC code
- 29-2055: Surgical Technologists
- NAICS code
- 622310: Orthopedic hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 110
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 185,293
- EIN
- 202553101
- Establishment ID
- 735510
- Employer case #
- EV20231578
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:30
- Time of incident
- 10:00
- 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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