# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Rockaway Shop Rite Associates, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171212189` · 12/24/2017 · PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing
- **Source:** Former co-worker
- **Secondary source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Rockaway Shop Rite Associates, Inc.
- **Location:** CONVERY BLVD., PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY, 08861
- **NAICS:** 446110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was laying out food for the holidays in the manager's office when a former employee entered the store and stabbed the employee 18 times with a knife.

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