needles
Posted By: no name on 2006-02-01
In Reply to: BAD, BAD, BAD thing to do....sm - they threw these needles into the dumpster??????
I truly agree with you. The cleaners does not a contained to crush the needles or supply gloves. My daughter thought she was doing the right thing because someone she works with is a drug addict and was going to empty out the needles and sterilize them. So she thought she was keeping them away from the drug addict. Hopefully the boss will tell this doctor who is really the one to blame here. If she got stabbed boy would there have been a law suit.
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I just had to share this story with everyone because I am a wreck. My 17-year-old daughter works in a cleaners. They have to go through all the pockets of clothes that come in. Last night she was going through lab coats (I did not know they did not wear gloves) and touched some needles that were in the pocket. She said that she was not stabbed put touched some white fluid. She said this has happened before but the needles had caps on them so they just threw them away. The ones from last night she tooked and threw them in the dumpster because someone that works there wanted them. She said she wrote a note to her boss and told her to please contact the doctor and tell him to be careful. The Dr. himself brings them in. I called a hotline and they told me that since she was not stabbed it was probably okay. I doubt they were used if they were in the guys jacket. I looked up his name and he is internal medicine. I am going out and buy her gloves today because the job does not supply them and I am not going to start a problem because she needs the job.
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