Incident date: 2015-08-06
NAICS industry code: 221210

On August 6, 2015, an employee working on a gas leak inside of an excavation was bitten by an unknown insect on the right elbow. As the day continued the bite are became swollen and painful. The employee was admitted into the hospital. On August 10, 2015 a portion of the bite area was removed by doctors.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bites and stings, unspecified
code_source: title: Insects, arachnids, mites, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate