Employee was cutting a clamp of a pipe when the knife slipped and cut EE's thumb. Requiring 3 stitches in EE's thumb.
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June 8, 2020
NC · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Sibelco North America, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
September 19, 2018
NC · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Sibelco North America, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While cutting a piece of rubber tubing, employee, using a utility knife, sliced the rubber towards EE's body instead of away, the blank ran up EE's thumb opening up a one-inch cut. EE was taken immediately to the local hospital and was given aid. The attending physician sewed up the cut with 8 stitches and immediately released EE to full duty.
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