Incident date: 2024-08-10
NAICS industry code: 541940

An employee was restraining a cat to prepare for a physical exam when the cat flipped over and bit them on their right hand palm near the thumb. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Non-venomous animal bites  except "bugs"
code_source: title: Cats, felines domestic
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate