OSHA Injury Report: Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron - Mahoning Valley

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Needle stick to thumb while doing a demo of a [REDACTED] for a patient when employee pulled the device out went to push in the spring to reactive to use the demo and found that it was not a demo it was a real used inserter. the used inserter was placed into the demo box by mistake.

What happened

Needle stick to thumb while doing a demo of a [REDACTED] for a patient when employee pulled the device out went to push in the spring to reactive to use the demo and found that it was not a demo it was a real used inserter. the used inserter was placed into the demo box by mistake.

Injury or illness

Needle stick to thumb while doing a demo of a Dexcom G7 CGM for a patient when employee pulled the device out went to push in the spring to reactive to use the demo and found that it was not a demo it was a real used inserter. the used inserter was placed into the demo box by mistake.

Object or substance involved

Needle

Summary line

Needle stick to thumb while doing a demo of a [REDACTED] for a patient when employee pulled the device out went to push in the spring to reactive to use the demo and found that it was not a demo it was a real used inserter

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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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 — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.