Milwaukee, WI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in 2900 W Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53215 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was nurse in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
- Parent company
- Aurora Health Care
- Street
- 2900 W Oklahoma Ave
- City
- Milwaukee
- State
- WI
- ZIP
- 53215
- On-site location
- SICU L3405
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
GIVING AN INSULIN SHOT
What happened
I WAS GIVING HER SCHEDULED INSULIN. I GAVE IT TO HER AND TRIED TO RETRACT THE NEEDLE STILL IN HER ARM BUT IT WOULD NOT GO AFTER A COUPLE OF TRIES. I HAD PULLED MY LEFT HAND AWAY BEFORE PULLING OUT THE NEEDLE. ONCE THE NEEDLE WAS OUT OF THE ARM I TRIED PRESSING IT IN ONCE AGAIN HAVING A HARD TIME THE PATIENT HAD BUMPED MY ARM HOLDING THE NEEDLE MAKING THE NEEDLE GO INTO THE OUTSIDE OF MY LEFT POINTER FINGER (SIDE CLOSEST TO MY THUMB)
Injury or illness
Puncture
Object or substance involved
needle
Summary line
needle cut across skin of finger causing bleeding
Employee and industry
- Job description
- NURSE
- SOC code
- 29-1141: Registered Nurses
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 7,392
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 12,992,326
- EIN
- 390806181
- Establishment ID
- 75757
- Employer case #
- 23 016924
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 00:15
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-04
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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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