OSHA Injury Report: 1254-Wilkes Medical Center-1370 West D St(1254)

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Unknown

What happened

I was changing plastic vacuum bottles during the paracentesis. When removing the tubing from the plastic vacuum bottle and sprayed like when you up the cap on a Pepsi can . I felt something in the corner of my left eye. At first I didn 't think much of it because I didn 't feel anything else hit my face. But [REDACTED] my eye feels irritated. I 'm worried that it was the pt 's paracentesis fluid that sprayed into my eye.

Injury or illness

Exposure to Contagious Disease-Bodily Fluid Infectious Waste 82-Bodily Fluid-Eye s -pt Care - Biological

Object or substance involved

vacuum bottle tubing for draining paracentesis

Summary line

Exposure to Contagious Disease-Bodily Fluid Infectious Waste 82-Bodily Fluid-Eye s -Patient Care - Biological Eye s vacuum bottle tubing for draining paracentesis

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.