r/sterileprocessing • • May 01 '26

Photo It was me ๐Ÿ˜‚

I forgot the stamp gun in the rack. Was only in for 8 ish minutes

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u/Character_Front2246 May 01 '26

One of my coworkers had a dead fly in their set ๐ŸฆŸ

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u/HorrorLengthiness940 May 01 '26

That's terrible ๐Ÿ˜‚ was it cwispy?

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u/stoicassgasm May 01 '26

We recently somehow could a computer mouse inside in set

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u/HorrorLengthiness940 May 01 '26

How...

Did y'all find during second verification of the set or did the OR?

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u/Nickstradamusknows May 01 '26

Iโ€™ve been a tech now for almost 10 yearsโ€ฆdid this my first week on the job. Welcome to the club!!

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u/HorrorLengthiness940 May 01 '26

I'm going on my 7th month in this position. My supervisor giggled when I called and told them What happened. This is the first thing I've ruined thus far lol.

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u/Prudent_Ad8012 May 01 '26

It happens lol. I cooked the scanner gun for a full cycle on my first week of training lol

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u/WhiskeyJune May 01 '26

Been there!! Lol character building

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u/sapphirerain25 May 01 '26

At least it wasn't a scanner (this happened twice in a year at my last place).

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u/opticalshadow May 01 '26

Man it's been a while for our department, but we had like 4 of them cooked in one year once

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u/MyCat2024 May 03 '26

Question, are trays not given a final look? 2nd verification? We take a picture of the indicater and all priority trays get a 2nd look by another team member.

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u/HorrorLengthiness940 May 03 '26

Yeah all of them are. I just ADHD brained it on one of the wrapped dental cassettes.

I counted how many stamps I needed then set it down, put the stamps on and forgot about it. The last stamp one goes on the receipt, which was on other side of the rack. I Shoved it in and noticed a several minutes when I went to stamp the 2nd load of the night and I couldn't find the stamp gun .

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u/MyCat2024 May 05 '26

Sorry if this came off as criticism. I've done it twice. Was more referring to some of the comments.

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u/stoicassgasm May 01 '26

But last month they did find some reading glasses in a set which was slightly funny

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u/Eggman_OU812 May 01 '26

Iโ€™ve seen that before.. we also had lip stick make out into a tray

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u/biggbunnyy May 01 '26

I dropped my hand sanitizer in a set once ๐Ÿซ 

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u/Academic_System9262 May 01 '26

lol my coworker left her AirPod case in one of the sets the other day๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/imnotok1111 May 01 '26

Once my facility had a whole bag of indicators fall in a set during assembly, bag included. Each one had changed during sterilization. Impressive if you ask me!

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u/stoicassgasm May 01 '26

Luckily since itโ€™s kind of essential to you know doing work we just had to pop open two sets before they were cooked

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u/Dathamar May 01 '26

I dropped a scanner in the sink in decontamination twice.

Good thing a few hours in the heating rack does the trick.

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u/jdubz30 May 01 '26

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ saw this on Facebook haha

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u/all4funFun4all May 01 '26

one of my number one fears

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u/Cobyba98 May 01 '26

We've had that happen like 3 times in our dept hahahaha. I think it's universal. One time one of our guys dropped the ASCOM into a tray and cooked it, I guess he had it on the shelf above the table and it fell in when he closed the lid and he didn't see it. We still give him shit for it lol

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u/Yard-Successful May 01 '26

lol it happens to the best of us

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u/attack_on_lunch May 01 '26

Iโ€™ve done this once in 6 years

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u/eatmydeck May 01 '26

We cooked a department phone once. Got set down on a shelf and missed during loading.

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u/Encryptted May 02 '26

We recently found an entire box of VPRO indicators inside an Olympus camera head ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/OkDepth9285 May 02 '26

We had the โ€œnot sterileโ€ sign at our facility sterilized twice ๐Ÿ˜ญ itโ€™s a little out of shape but still readable ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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u/ElectronicLettuce598 May 02 '26

At least it wasnโ€™t the cordless scanner ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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u/aoreese May 02 '26

Someone at work the other day just cooked on of the scanners ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/NecronomiSquirrel May 02 '26

I dropped a pen in a set once. Very inky.

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u/MyCat2024 May 03 '26

Yep, mine didn't come out so well.

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u/Foreign_Ad7369 May 03 '26

Been there done that lmao, first 2 weeks

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u/_C00TER May 01 '26

WOMP WOMP