Incident date: 2022-10-19
NAICS industry code: 423450

An employee was delivering in-person support for patient monitor installation at a hospital. While in the hallway, the employee encountered a hospital employee walking a patient's emotional support dog. The dog bit the employee's left hand, and the employee was hospitalized for infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other animal bites, nonvenomous
code_source: title: Dogs, canines-domestic
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate