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OSHA Injury Report: Vernon Health Hospital

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at Vernon Health Hospital in 507 S. Main Street, Viroqua, WI 54665 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was physician in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

Where did this happen?

Establishment
Vernon Health Hospital
Parent company
Vernon Memorial Healthcare
Street
507 S. Main Street
City
Viroqua
State
WI
ZIP
54665
On-site location
Med/surg

What was the outcome?

Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Before the incident

Performing an intraarticular steroid injection to a patient 's knee with a 22ga needle

What happened

Once injection was completed the employee removed the needle from the patient and failed to deploy the safety device before superficially lacerating his medial left index finger with the needle.

Injury or illness

Superficial laceration to left medial index finger with an exposed needle

Object or substance involved

22ga needle

Summary line

Significant Exposure

Employee and industry

Job description
Physician
SOC code
29-1229 — Physicians, All Other
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
336
Total hours worked
531532
Establishment ID
1074889
Employer case #
20257

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
8:00
Time of incident
14:15
Filing year
2025
Submitted
20JAN26:16:00:00

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.