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OSHA Injury Report: Baxter Health

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at Baxter Health in 624 Hospital Drive, Mountain Home, AR 72653 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was tech Cert in hospitals, general medical and surgical.

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Where did this happen?

Establishment
Baxter Health
Parent company
Baxter County Regional Hospital
Street
624 Hospital Drive
City
Mountain Home
State
AR
ZIP
72653
On-site location
OR decon room

What was the outcome?

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

Before the incident

Cleaning dirty instruments

What happened

Employee was taking dirty instruments to decontaminate after a procedure. Employee reached into the basin to throw away sharps and was punctured by the tip of a drain used during the surgical procedure.

Injury or illness

Dirty sharps exposure to right thumb

Object or substance involved

Dirty surgical instrument

Summary line

Puncture to right thumb with a contaminated surgical instrument

Employee and industry

Job description
Tech Cert
SOC code
29-2099 — Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
NAICS code
622110 — Hospitals, general medical and surgical
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
2046
Total hours worked
3447720
EIN
710561765
Establishment ID
297313
Employer case #
218

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
6:23
Time of incident
15:45
Filing year
2025
Submitted
22JAN26:14:26:00

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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.