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OSHA Injury Report: Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, TN 37650 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was telemetry Tech in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital
Parent company
Unicoi County Hospital
Street
2030 Temple Hill Rd
City
Erwin
State
TN
ZIP
37650
On-site location
ED Exam Room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Assisting another Team Member with repositioning a patient in bed and obtaining lab specimen.

RN obtained lab specimen from patient and failed to engage safety device on butterfly needle. RN handed device to Telemetry tech with no safety engaged and needlestick injury occurred.

Needlestick Injury to right ring finger.

Blood from patient.

Needlestick to right ring finger from butterfly needle.

Job description
Telemetry Tech
SOC code
29-2034 — Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
77
Total hours worked
127079
EIN
620476282
Establishment ID
932330
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
18:30:00.000
Time of incident
2:58:00.000
Submitted
25JAN24:21:49:00

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.