Needlestick without exposure to harmful substance · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at VCA Lakeside Animal Hospital, 7817 Jacksboro Hwy, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76135
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was drawing meloxicam out of a bottle and poked her thumb with the needle. The employee woke up the next day and her hand was swollen. She was hospitalized for infection and surgery.
An employee was holding a pullet while a coworker performed a vaccination when the employee was accidentally stuck in the right index finger behind the first knuckle with a quarter-inch, 18-gauge needle that was being used to administer the vaccine.
An employee was injecting a vaccine into chickens on a poultry farm along a conveying system and stuck the back of his left index finger with the injection apparatus.
An employee was restraining a cat that was thrashing in its cage while recovering from anesthesia so the veterinarian could administer sedation. The cat bit the employee on their left thumb, resulting in hospitalization due to an infection.
A client arrived for an appointment and was getting out of their car when their cat carrier broke and their cat went under the car and into the engine area. The injured employee was able to scruff the cat and started to pull it out. The cat scratched and bit the employee's hands. One wound was close to a knuckle and immediately started to swell. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.
An employee was holding the leash for a large dog. The dog panicked and pulled on the leash, causing the employee to fall forward to the ground. She suffered a broken kneecap and was hospitalized.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.