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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221718604

Assembling,Assembly Line,Bleeding,Breathing,Conveyor,Cutting,Food processing,Hand Tool,Impaled,Inexperience,Insufficient Supervision,Knife,Laceration,Lack of oxygen,Meat Processing,Misjudgment,Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation,Neck,Production Line,Puncture,Puncture Wound,Struck By

Event
Assembling,Assembly Line,Bleeding,Breathing,Conveyor,Cutting,Food processing,Hand Tool,Impaled,Inexperience,Insufficient Supervision,Knife,Laceration,Lack of oxygen,Meat Processing,Misjudgment,Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation,Neck,Production Line,Puncture,Puncture Wound,Struck By
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
221718604
Report ID
0729700

Event description

Employee dies from apnea after piercing neck with knife

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 44 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    785

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