Incident date: 2023-09-25
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee had finished sharpening a knife on the grinding wheel and was returning it when he lost grip of the handle. As the employee reached to catch the it, his abdomen was lacerated by the knife blade in the right lower quadrant.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate