OSHA Injury Report: Hawthorne Center for Rehabilitation and Healing of Sarasota

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

The employee was assisting resident in wheelchair to the bathroom.

What happened

As the employee was assisting the resident to the bathroom to use the toilet as the resident sttod from the toilet to return to the wheelchair seat and the resident fell back into the seat and smashed the employees left middle finger. The employee immediately felt pain in the left middle finger and reported what happen to the nurse supervisor on duty. As the employee contniue to work the pain in her middle finger worsen and the employee had swelling.

Injury or illness

closed displaced distal phalanx fracture of the left middle finger.

Object or substance involved

The resident wheelchair.

Summary line

Left hand 3rd finger fracture

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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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 — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.