There's no info how to dodge him, so for the first run he was knocking me down before I had time to run away. He locks you in place first, and then the throw animation plays (probably a bug? pun unintended). While trying to kill him with the knife, it often ends up on the floor (the knife, not the guy) and I think the game becomes softlocked? I assume you can also kill him in other ways (probably with the toaster), but he wasn't doing anything life-threatening with it.