# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at BEF Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010002` · 1/3/2017 · XENIA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Knives-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** BEF Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 640 Birch Rd., XENIA, OHIO, 45385
- **NAICS:** 424470
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting the aitch bone out of a hog carcass when the boning knife slipped and lacerated/punctured his top right rib area.

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