Gunshot wounds

Name: Gunshot wounds at Honeywell
Start: 10/16/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181010672 · 10/16/2018 · Honeywell

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Thigh(s)
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: Honeywell
Location: 2221 Industrial Rd., NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA, 68410
NAICS: 334514
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was on break in his vehicle and had taken his handgun out of his glove box and placed it onto his left thigh/leg. When he was putting the gun back in the glove box, it fired. He was hit in his left thigh, and the bullet exited through his left knee. He was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown