Incident date: 2020-03-30
NAICS industry code: 541940

A veterinarian was preparing to give an IV injection to a cat. The cat bit the veterinarian's left thumb; the bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other animal bites, nonvenomous
code_source: title: Cats, felines-domestic
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate