Incident date: 2020-03-07
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee had just finished unloading a pallet of product. The employee picked up the empty wood pallet to place it on top of the stack of empties and got a splinter in their right hand. The next day, the employee was hospitalized due to an infection in the hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate