OSHA Injury Report: LEWISGALE HOSPITAL PULASKI

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Assisting patient to the CT table from geri-chair

What happened

Employee states that she was assisting the patient to get on the CT table when she felt a pop in the right posterior forearm. She also states that this pop was audible. She states that the patient had arrived to CT in a geriatric recliner chair and stood up to transfer to CT table the patient was seated on the CT table and when the staff laid her back to properly align her body with the table the EE that was injured assisted with her feet. The employee was at the bottom of the CT table and lifting the patients legs to the right and she was standing to the left of the patient. It was during this transfer and patient repositioning that the EE heard and felt the pop in right posterior forearm.

Injury or illness

right forearm muscle strain

Object or substance involved

patient movement

Summary line

Assist pt to CT table right Forearm strain

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.