Incident date: 2017-02-02
NAICS industry code: 541940

On February 2, 2017, at about 5:00 p.m., an employee was attempting to euthanize a possum when it bit the employee's right hand and scratched the employee's right arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Bitten and struck by animal
code_source: title: Mammals, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Multiple types of open wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate