# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Texas Packing
> OSHA SIR `2018021750` · 2/20/2018 · SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing
- **Source:** Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Packing
- **Location:** 1809 N Bell St, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, 76903
- **NAICS:** 333241
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was processing meat when another employee stabbed him in the neck with a knife. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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