Incident date: 2023-12-13
NAICS industry code: 812910

An employee was preparing a cat cage for a new intake when a cat that was loose in the cat room bit and scratched the employee. The employee was hospitalized with puncture wounds to the fingers of both hands and a scratch on their left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of animal and insect incidents, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cats, felines-domestic
code_nature: title: Multiple types of open wounds
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate