Incident date: 2024-05-11
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was taking a process sample and stroked the needle to remove contaminants when the sample needle pierced his left thumb. Some of the material being sampled (butadiene and cyclohexane) entered his thumb. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Unintentional needlestick or sharps injury
code_source: title: Multiple chemicals and hazardous materials
code_nature: title: Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate