Incident date: 2015-01-14
NAICS industry code: 491110

On 1/14/15, an employee on his mail route accidentally swallowed a pen cap. The pen cap traveled to the employee's lung. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pens and pencils
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate