Incident date: 2024-01-06
NAICS industry code: 512110

On January 6, 2024, at approximately 12:00 p.m., an employee was petting a cat while on her break. The cat scratched and bit the employee's wrist and right hand. Later that afternoon, the employee became ill due to the wounds and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of contact with animals
code_source: title: Cats, felines domestic
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate