OSHA Injury Report: Peace Island Medical Center

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

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

When (timing detail)

Source

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.