# Cuts, lacerations at Whole Life Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015053315` · 5/31/2015 · SHELTON, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Patient
- **Secondary source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Whole Life Company Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Daybreak Ln, SHELTON, CONNECTICUT, 06484
- **NAICS:** 623210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was injured while talking a resident down from a ladder. The individual had secured a butter knife to remove the cover off of a light bulb. The employee was slashed in the eye by the butter knife and required surgery.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*