Lancaster, OH ·
OSHA Injury Report: Fairfield Medical Center
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Fairfield Medical Center in 401 N. Ewing St, Lancaster, OH 43130 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was privacy Case in general medical and surgical hospitals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Fairfield Medical Center
- Parent company
- Fairfield Medical Center
- Street
- 401 N. Ewing St
- City
- Lancaster
- State
- OH
- ZIP
- 43130
- On-site location
- patient bedside
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
drawing patient 's blood
What happened
Patient was jerking during draw. I asked patient to hold still and she said she was. I finished the draw and attempted to put gauze on puncture site. At which time patient jerked again (seemingly uncontrollably. No malicious intent was suspected) and the needle pulled out of her hand went through the gauze and the glove I was wearing and into my thumb.
Injury or illness
puncture wound left thumb
Object or substance involved
contaminated butterfly needle
Summary line
puncture wound left thumb
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Privacy Case
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 622110: General medical and surgical hospitals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 1,974
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 3,037,605
- EIN
- 310645626
- Establishment ID
- 85065
- Employer case #
- AAAC000000
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 18:00
- Time of incident
- 04:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-30
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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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