Incident date: 2019-02-13
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was cutting a calf hip carcass with a 5-inch butcher knife when the knife slid off of the carcass and impaled the employee's right thigh.  The employee was hospitalized.

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: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate