# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Whole Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085815` · 8/15/2015 · WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Fish, shellfish
## Employer
- **Name:** Whole Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 1845 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33401
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 8-15-15, at 1330, an employee working in the seafood department received a puncture wound in her right index finger from a yellow tail snapper fin bone while scaling the fish. She was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*