Dodgeville, WI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Upland Hills Health - Hospital
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Upland Hills Health - Hospital in 800 Compassion Way, Dodgeville, WI 53533 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was phlebotomist in hospitals, general medical and surgical.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Upland Hills Health - Hospital
- Parent company
- Upland Hills Health
- Street
- 800 Compassion Way
- City
- Dodgeville
- State
- WI
- ZIP
- 53533
- On-site location
- Medical Surgical Unit - patients room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Was in the patient room 211 at patient 's bedside collecting blood. A 23 guage butterfuly needle was being used with a syringe attached. Vein was not located immediately needle was readjusted after initial venipuncture and patient moved her arm.
What happened
When patient moved her arm after the initial venipuncture that did not locate a vein and a second attempt was being had the movement caused the needle to slide out of her arm. The patient was bleeding and direct pressure was applied to stop the bleeding. After this was under control i was attempting to engage the needle guard as the patient bumped my arm which cause me to bump the needle into my left thumb.
Injury or illness
Needle stick to left thumb
Object or substance involved
butterfly needle
Summary line
Needle stick to left thumb
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Phlebotomist
- SOC code
- 31-9097: Phlebotomists
- NAICS code
- 622110: Hospitals, general medical and surgical
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 404
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 585,536
- EIN
- 421017512
- Establishment ID
- 229580
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 08:00
- Time of incident
- 11:50
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-04-17
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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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