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OSHA Injury Report: Defiance Regional Medical Center

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Defiance Regional Medical Center in Defiance, OH 43512 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was admSupervisorN in general Medical and Surgical Hospitals.

Establishment
Defiance Regional Medical Center
Parent company
ProMedica
Street
1200 Ralston Ave.
City
Defiance
State
OH
ZIP
43512
On-site location
Emergency Department
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

drawing blood cultures

I was drawingcompleting blood cultures for this patient After I took the vacutainer offit was going to fall off the counter I grabbed the vacutainer while it was starting to fall and my middle finger when into where the covered needle was When I grasped the container is when I felt the puncture on my middle finger on the left side I saw the rip in my glove and washed my hands immediately The vacutainer had already been used to transfer the patient s blood to the vials Ouch line called360 referred

Puncture

Needlestick

PunctureFinger LeftEmployee dropped a vacutainer and went to catch it and poked their finger

Job description
AdmSupervisorN
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
622110 — General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
340
Total hours worked
449312
EIN
344446484
Establishment ID
1155023
Employer case #
308360
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
15:00:00.000
Submitted
01MAR24:16:35:00

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.