Employee Lacerates Hand with Butcher Knife

An employee working as a cook in Los Angeles, CA was in a restaurant kitchen cutting a large piece of partially frozen beef with a 17-inch butcher knife. He worked at Tacos El Unico, which was a retail food facility that prepared and sold Mexican food to the general public using mixing, cooking and meat slicing and cutting operations. The cook was cutting the meat into smaller pieces so that it later could be sliced with a meat slicer. The employee was not wearing cut-resistant gloves. Using his right hand, which was wet with blood, […]