← OSHA severe injury reports
Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
1 hospitalization · 2024021436 · 2/15/2024 · U.S. Postal Services
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Wrist(s)
- Nature of injury
- Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
Cause
- Event
- Injured by object held or wielded by person
- Source
- Box cutters, razor knives
- Secondary source
- Secondary source not applicable
Employer
- Name
- U.S. Postal Services
- Location
- 1733 Pleasonton Road, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79906
- NAICS
- 491110
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was changing the blade on a box cutter and lacerated an artery in her wrist.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown