Incident date: 2025-04-18
NAICS industry code: 561310

An employee was peeling a watermelon when the knife slipped from his hand. He grabbed it and suffered a laceration on his right index fingertip, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Knives
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high