Incident date: 2015-06-22
NAICS industry code: 515210

An employee splicing communication cables pricked himself with a piece of rusted metal debris that was on the ground. Later in the day the wound became infected and the employee was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate