Incident date: 2016-04-01
NAICS industry code: 561330

On 04/01/2016, an employee was hospitalized due to lacerating his left forearm. The employee was using a pocket knife to cut a hard plastic banding off of stacks of boxes when the banding sprung and caused the knife to lacerate his left radial artery. The employee required 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: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate