Incident date: 2022-07-15
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was assisting a boat captain with bringing in a 4-foot bull shark that had been caught on a fishing line. The employee reached down over the side of the boat and contacted the shark's mouth. The shark's teeth lacerated the employee's right middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other animal bites, nonvenomous
code_source: title: Fish, shellfish
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate