OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221710825

7-ELEVEN, INC.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK— 2024-10-18T00:00:00

Event: Assault, Bleeding, Blood, Cashier, Convenience Store, Convenience Store Clerk, Engineering Controls, Extended Work Shift, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Knife, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Loss Of Blood, Neck, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Puncture, Puncture Wound, Robbery, Workplace Violence
NAICS: 447110
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347825861
Employer profile: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
Summary number: 221710825
Report ID: 0627700

Event description

Employee dies when stabbed in neck during robbery

Investigation abstract

At 1:00 a.m. on October 18, 2024, an employee working as a cashier for a convenience store was assisting a customer with a purchase. When the employee turned around to get the customer a cigar, the customer entered the cashier area. Customer forced the employee to open the register and give them the money from the till. Although the employee complied with the request, the customer proceeded to stab the employee in the neck prior to departing store. The employee died from a knife wound to the neck.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 18 F

Event type
1

Occupation code
276

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