# Gunshot wounds at Aegis Chemical Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2018065614` · 6/8/2018 · SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional
- **Source:** Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pistol, handgun, revolver
## Employer
- **Name:** Aegis Chemical Solutions
- **Location:** Remote jobsite, SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS, 75972
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a remote job site delivering chemicals. When he had finished delivering chemicals at that location, he began having a headache. The employee was looking for headache medicine in his backpack and removed a handgun from the backpack placing it on the truck console. When he later reached for the gun it discharged into his left hand. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

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