Emmetsburg, IA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Palo Alto County Health System
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Palo Alto County Health System in 3201 1st Street, Emmetsburg, IA 50536 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was physicians Assistant in health Care.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Palo Alto County Health System
- Parent company
- Palo Alto County Health System
- Street
- 3201 1st Street
- City
- Emmetsburg
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 50536
- On-site location
- Emergency Department, Exam Room 2
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Seeing patients in the emergency department and entering orders in the computer.
What happened
Employee injured her lower back while assisting the nurse with lifting and boosting a patient towards the head of the cot.
Injury or illness
MRI results show a posterior right disk protrusion at T12-L1 which partially effaces the ventral thecal sac without discrete contact of the exiting nerve root at this level
Object or substance involved
patient positioning and lifting
Summary line
Low back pain radiating into right buttock and hip area
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Physicians Assistant
- SOC code
- 29-1071: Physician Assistants
- NAICS code
- 622110: Health Care
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 290
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 490,649
- EIN
- 420455510
- Establishment ID
- 561751
- Employer case #
- R2024002
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 17:30
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-01-29
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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