Incident date: 2015-08-05
NAICS industry code: 541940

An employee was holding a cat for a veterinary exam when the cat turned its head and bit into the employee's left-hand tendon between the index finger and thumb.  The employee required surgery.

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), except finger(s)
severity: moderate