Incident date: 2019-11-22
NAICS industry code: 423390

An employee was using a knife to remove banding around oriented strand board product that he had delivered to a construction site. The knife slipped and caused a laceration to a patellar tendon that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate