Incident date: 2021-07-03
NAICS industry code: 541940

An employee was attempting to put a muzzle on a cat in order to trim its nails when the cat bit the worker, resulting in a puncture wound to the right index finger that became infected and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other animal bites, nonvenomous
code_source: title: Cats, felines-domestic
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate