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OSHA Injury Report: Down East Community Hospital

Other illness · Other recordable case

On , an other illness at Down East Community Hospital in Machias, ME 4654 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was cCMA in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Establishment
Down East Community Hospital
Parent company
Down East Community Hospital
Street
11 Hospital Drive
City
Machias
State
ME
ZIP
4654
On-site location
Patient room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Other illness (code 6)

While sticking a patient with a needle some of her equipment started to fall and staff went to grab them. When she did the needle came out of the patients arm and stuck her right index finger

While sticking a patient with a needle some of her equipment started to fall and staffwent to grab them. When she did the needle came out of the patients arm and stuck her right index finger

needle stick

BBP

While sticking a patient with a needle some of her equipment started to fall and [REDACTED] went to grab them. When she did the needle came out of the patients arm and stuck her right index finger.

Job description
CCMA
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
340
Total hours worked
558257
EIN
10263198
Establishment ID
1274999
Employer case #
15
Date of incident
Filing year
2024
Submitted
29JAN2025:20:08:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.