Incident date: 2025-06-16
NAICS industry code: 238310

On June 16, 2025, an employee was on a ladder to install insulating foam to refrigerator lines. When the employee was climbing down the ladder, a 7-inch, smooth-blade knife that had been placed on a pipe fell from above, striking the employee's neck and resulting in a puncture wound.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Knives
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
severity: moderate