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OSHA Injury Report: Tampa General Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, FL 33606 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was patient Care Technician in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Tampa General Hospital
Parent company
Florida Health Sciences Center
Street
1 Tampa General Circle
City
Tampa
State
FL
ZIP
33606
On-site location
Utility room 6C1
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Attempting to open scalpel and stabbed my finger and left open wound for the rest of the shift.

I was looking for something sharp to cut the hanging yarn on my jacket and I wasn 't able to find scissors so I stabbed myself trying to open the scalpel packaging and while opening it.. I stabbed myself It bleed for a bit but I just put hand sanitizer and the left the wound open for the rest of my shift now it is swollen hot and painful to move.

Puncture Wound

Exp-Scalpel

Puncture Thumb while opening scapel

Job description
Patient Care Technician
SOC code
31-1131 — Nursing Assistants
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
8391
Total hours worked
13749311
EIN
593458145
Establishment ID
222953
Employer case #
2023-11683
Date of incident
Shift started
19:00:00.000
Time of incident
4:00:00.000
Submitted
02MAR24:15:36:00

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.