Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202557047 - Employee Suffers Stab in Forearm When Plastic Strip Fall

Accident Summary Nr: 202557047 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 01/10/2014
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
317386233	01/16/2014	7361	561310	Dss Staffing Inc.

Abstract: On January 10, 2014, Employee #1, a contracted butcher, was working at a retail grocery store. The employee was walking through a set of hanging plastic strips used to separate the market from the actual meat cutting area, when one of the strips fell back causing him to stab his left forearm with a knife that he was carrying in his right hand. Employee #1 was taken to Huntington Beach Hospital, where he was treated for stab wound where the knife hit a vein in his arm. The employee was hospitalized for seven days.

Keywords: KNIFE, STUCK, FOREARM, LACERATION, PLASTIC MFG, FALL, STRUCK BY

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	317386233			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Butchers and meat cutters

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