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OSHA Injury Report: Haven Behavioral Hosptial of Eastern Pennsylvania

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at Haven Behavioral Hosptial of Eastern Pennsylvania in 145 N. 6th Street, Reading, PA 19601 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was behavioral Heatlh Technician in psychiatric hospitals (except convalescent).

Where did this happen?

Establishment
Haven Behavioral Hosptial of Eastern Pennsylvania
Parent company
Haven Behavioral Hospital of Eastern PA
Street
145 N. 6th Street
City
Reading
State
PA
ZIP
19601
On-site location
Psych Unit

What was the outcome?

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

Before the incident

Monitoring patients in psych unit

What happened

Patient attempting to strangle themselves. While trying to prevent the patient from strangling themselves employee was bit by the patient. While holding patient employee 's right hand was exposed to patient 's blood that was coming from irritated stiches on patient 's wrist.

Injury or illness

Human bite exposure to patient 's blood

Object or substance involved

Patient 's mouth

Summary line

Human bite on right arm

Employee and industry

Job description
Behavioral Heatlh Technician
SOC code
29-2053 — Psychiatric Technicians
NAICS code
622210 — Psychiatric hospitals (except convalescent)
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
210
Total hours worked
403068
EIN
272799973
Establishment ID
1064228
Employer case #
12

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
19:20:00.000
Filing year
2023
Submitted
02MAR24:18:55:00

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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.