Fort Smith, AR ·
OSHA Injury Report: Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith in 1001 Townson Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72901 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was physician in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith
- Parent company
- Baptist Health
- Street
- 1001 Townson Avenue
- City
- Fort Smith
- State
- AR
- ZIP
- 72901
- On-site location
- CVICU
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee was performing a procedure on a patient.
What happened
Employee was placing a central line and accidentally poked self in left thumb with the dirty needle.
Injury or illness
Dirty needlestick.
Object or substance involved
Dirty needle.
Summary line
Employee was placing a central line and accidentally poked self in left thumb with the dirty needle.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Physician
- SOC code
- 29-1229: Physicians, All Other
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 988
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 2,056,058
- EIN
- 825426152
- Establishment ID
- 503211
- Employer case #
- WF-2023-00
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:30
- Time of incident
- 11:20
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-26
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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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