Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221424542

HMI COMMERCIAL CLEANING INC.

Event
Animal, Animal Bite, Arm, Cleaning, Hand, Insufficient Supervision, Janitor, Laceration, Lack of Work Procedures, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Pulled In, Supervision, Training
NAICS
561720
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345709646
Employer profile
HMI COMMERCIAL CLEANING INC.
Summary number
221424542
Report ID
0418800

Event description

Employee is bitten by tiger causing hand and arm trauma

Investigation abstract

At 10:30 p.m. on December 29, 2021, an employee was kneeling adjacent to a wire mesh tiger enclosure when he put his hand through the wire. A tiger bit his hand and arm causing severe trauma and requiring hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 25 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    453

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