Incident date: 2023-02-20
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was MIG welding when the welding wire poked through his glove and contacted his left little finger. The employee was hospitalized for a bacterial infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Welding, cutting, and blow torches
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate