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OSHA Injury Report: Nashoba Valley Medical Center

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, MA 01432 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was phlebotomist in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Nashoba Valley Medical Center
Parent company
Steward Health Care
Street
200 Groton Rd
City
Ayer
State
MA
ZIP
01432
On-site location
Medical office
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Drawing blood from a patient

The needle slipped as the employee was withdrawing it from the patient and punctured her right thumb

Right thumb needlestick

Contaminated needle

Contaminated needlestick

Job description
Phlebotomist
SOC code
31-9097 — Phlebotomists
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
520
Total hours worked
821638
EIN
274157855
Establishment ID
659509
Employer case #
10270
Date of incident
Shift started
7:30:00.000
Time of incident
14:40:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:13:49:00

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.