Incident date: 2024-03-05
NAICS industry code: 311611

Two employees were working on a meat trimming harvesting line working on the same calf carcass when one employee moved the carcass to start working on the next one. The carcass struck the right arm of the injured employee causing the five-inch curved knife he was holding to cut through his left forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Knives
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate