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Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
1 hospitalization · 2017065890 · 6/27/2017 · Advocate Health Care
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- Nature of injury
- Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
Cause
- Event
- Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- Source
- Scalpels
Employer
- Name
- Advocate Health Care
- Location
- 836 W. Wellington Ave, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60657
- NAICS
- 621111
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was using a scalpel to perform a bedside debridement when the scalpel stabbed the employee's left middle finger.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown