Stabbing, cutting, slashing by other person · Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at St Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital, 969 Lakeland Drive, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 39216
on — Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels , affecting the Abdomen unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was walking through the parking lot when a former employee attacked them and stabbed them in the abdomen with a knife. The employee was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Abdomen unspecified Co-worker, supervisor former
The injured employee was told to get the rotisseries and then a verbal argument with a co-worker occurred. The injured employee walked out to get her jacket, and as soon as she came back, the co-worker stabbed her neck and shoulder area with a knife. She sustained injury to her diaphragm that required surgery.
An employee came in early to use the air compressor to add air to one of his car's tires. While he was walking across the parking lot, the injured employee noticed a man sitting in the parking lot. The unidentified man rushed the injured employee and stabbed him three times in the back with a knife.
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