Incident date: 2020-08-26
NAICS industry code: 621111

A veterinarian was drawing blood from a patient for a test when the dog pulled her arm and jerked it back. The needle went into the veterinarian's thumb about an inch. Her hand started swelling in the evening. She later went to the hospital for an infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Needles, syringes
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate