Incident date: 2021-05-03
NAICS industry code: 541940

An employee was restraining a cat in preparation for sedation when the cat bit the employee's hand, resulting in hospitalization due to an infection.

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