Incident date: 2015-10-21
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was inserting a piece of metal inside a piece of vinyl window profile when she got a splinter. She and a co-worker removed the splinter.  Later she went to the doctor to receive further treatment and was hospitalized for an infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal chips, particles
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate