Incident date: 2019-08-28
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was removing entrails from a slaughtered cow when a piece of hair from the cow lodged in his middle fingernail bed on his right hand. The employee developed an infection in his hand requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Animal carcass, roadkill
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
severity: moderate