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While using a box cutter knife to cut the long ends of plastic wire ties, the knife slipped resulting in a 2 cm laceration on the top of the victim's left hand. The wound was closed by a physician with two stitches.
Employee was engaged in the task of securing a loaded aggregate barge to an empty barge along side the dredge. In the process of placing the 2" diameter soft line up on the deck fitting of the empty barge, the victim says that he strained his back muscle.