Last month an employee at the Ballard library branch was stuck by a needle while cleaning out the garbage in the women’s restroom.
Now the library is planning to install sharps containers in a pilot program in some of the branches, according to Erica Barnett reporting in Seattle Weekly.
The library will work with Seattle Public Utilities, which is already running a pilot program for safe needle disposal in outdoor bins and inside several public restrooms. The closest location to Ballard is a bin at Fremont Canal Park.
Seattle Public Library said the Ballard incident was the first of its kind in the library system.