# Cuts, lacerations at Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2017054870` · 5/20/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing
- **Source:** Co-worker
- **Secondary source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
- **Location:** 2002 Holcombe Blvd, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77030
- **NAICS:** 621112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was escorting a coworker to the hospital's emergency room when the coworker pulled out a knife and stabbed the employee several times. The employee received lacerations to the head, left ear lobe, left upper back, left upper neck, left forearm, left arm and left shoulder.

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