Incident date: 2022-10-17
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was removing staples from a piece of furniture. The employee's industrial staple remover slipped and punctured their left thumb. The wound became infected.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate