Incident date: 2025-02-03
NAICS industry code: 112120

An employee was administering an IV to a cow. The cow jerked and the needle swung and struck the employee's eye. The employee sustained a puncture wound to the eye's sclera and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Needles, syringes
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate