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OSHA Injury Report: Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at Medstar Washington Hospital Center in 110 Irving St, Washington, DC 20010 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was clinical Nurse in general medical and surgical hospitals.

Where did this happen?

Establishment
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Street
110 Irving St
City
Washington
State
DC
ZIP
20010
On-site location
NURSING-MED/SURG

What was the outcome?

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

Before the incident

I was giving a patient a [REDACTED] shot and then I finished giving the patient the shot. I then removed the needle from the patient. I was pressing the safety mechanism and it grazed m left finger. I was trying to grab his skin. I think when I was removing the needle I felt like it grazed my finger. My hands are not strong enough to retract it on the patient 's skin. Because every time I try to do it it hurt the patient the more. If I press to hard I feel that I am hurting the patient more. And he is now very skinny. Any little friction he feels it x 10. We had our Didactic skills day today and we had a needle stick section. So they told us that if we have a needlestick injury we should tell our leader and report to Occ Health. If Occ Health is not available we should go to the ED .

What happened

I was giving a patient a [REDACTED] shot and then I finished giving the patient the shot. I then removed the needle from the patient. I was pressing the safety mechanism and it grazed m left finger. I was trying to grab his skin. I think when I was removing the needle I felt like it grazed my finger. My hands are not strong enough to retract it on the patient 's skin. Because every time I try to do it it hurt the patient the more. If I press to hard I feel that I am hurting the patient more. And he is now very skinny. Any little friction he feels it x 10. We had our Didactic skills day today and we had a needle stick section. So they told us that if we have a needlestick injury we should tell our leader and report to Occ Health. If Occ Health is not available we should go to the ED .

Injury or illness

BBP - Percutaneous Contact Finger-Index Left

Object or substance involved

Lovenox Needle

Summary line

BBP - Percutaneous Contact Finger-Index Left

Employee and industry

Job description
Clinical Nurse
SOC code
29-1141 — Registered Nurses
NAICS code
622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
7777
Total hours worked
12767488
EIN
521272129
Establishment ID
745508
Employer case #
2025-1690

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
7:00
Time of incident
12:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
06FEB26:15:57:00

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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.