Table 4.

Causes for preventable needlestick and sharps injuries with safety-engineered devices (SED), January 2014–June 2016, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Cause	Preventable injuries with SED (N = 29)
	n	%
Improperly activated	9	31
Not activated at all	7	24
Incompletely activated	5	17
Not immediately activated	3	10
Improper use of intravenous lines	2	7
Improper use of blood culture adapter	2	7
Manual activation of a passively triggered safety mechanism that did not work	1	3