# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Lone Star Beef Processors, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2020043117` · 4/6/2020 · SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lone Star Beef Processors, L.P.
- **Location:** 2150 E 37th Street, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, 76903
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning his knife at the end of a shift. The knife stabbed his left hand, puncturing his cut-resistant glove and cutting an artery. He was hospitalized.

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