# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Brians House Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054100` · 5/5/2017 · PHOENIXVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing
- **Source:** Other client or customer
- **Secondary source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brians House Inc.
- **Location:** 60 South Spring Lane, PHOENIXVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19460
- **NAICS:** 623210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sitting at a dining room table completing paperwork when a client stabbed her in the upper left shoulder with a steak knife. The knife penetrated her chest cavity wall and punctured her lung.

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