Incident date: 2024-09-16
NAICS industry code: 561720

On September 16, 2024, an employee was filling a mop bucket from a dispenser with a solution of water and cleaning chemicals when some of the solution splashed onto a wound on his foot and it became swollen. The employee was hospitalized with an infection to the foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through wound or broken skin
code_source: title: Infectious agents  unspecified
code_nature: title: Infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue  unspecified
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate