Incident date: 2019-04-29
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was spraying walls and ceilings with paint. While trying to fix the tip of the paint sprayer, the air valve trigger was pressed and the employee suffered a small cut on the left side of the thumb. Paint got inside the wound and the employee was hospitalized for an infection requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Paint
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate