Incident date: 2020-01-31
NAICS industry code: 622110

A security officer was attending to an aggressive dog(s) by the patient entrance to the hospital. During the intervention with the dog(s), the officer was bitten. At that point, the officer discharged a firearm at the dog and the discharged round struck the officer in the left little finger area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional
code_source: title: Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate