Friday Harbor, WA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Peace Island Medical Center
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Peace Island Medical Center in 1117 Spring Street, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was RN Critical Access Team Lead in healthcare.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Peace Island Medical Center
- Parent company
- PeaceHealth
- Street
- 1117 Spring Street
- City
- Friday Harbor
- State
- WA
- ZIP
- 98250
- On-site location
- Peace Island Medical Center
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Cleaning OR Instruments
What happened
Nurse cleaning instruments in SPD. Sink with sharps water and chemical cleaning agents. Instruments had been soaking in chemicals for 10 minutes then scrubbing of instruments started. Attempting to pick up next instrument and felt sharp stick. Gloves removed and noted blood on inside of glove. Handwashing scrubbing done with soap and water and 70pctg alcohol. Instruments reviewed and suspected sharps noted. It was a pick ups (like a tweezer) but has a very sharp pointy end. These instruments were pulled from the ER dirty storage [REDACTED]. The sharps was in one of three buckets. Each bucket is a different Pt but we have no way of knowing who the Pt might be. Director notified. Employee Health Blood Borne Pathogen Exposure Hotline notified and was instructed to fill out safe to share. Not asked to report to the ER for labs but that Employee Health will call RN on [REDACTED] to discuss further steps.
Injury or illness
Puncture;Left Hand
Object or substance involved
sharp object-tweezers
Summary line
Poked by clean tweezers while cleaning
Employee and industry
- Job description
- RN Critical Access Team Lead
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: Healthcare
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 117
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 143,928
- EIN
- 910939479
- Establishment ID
- 934783
- Employer case #
- 2023-00025
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 11:45
- Time of incident
- 06:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-02
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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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