Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Name: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Stoughton Trailers, LLC
Start: 10/24/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181010970 · 10/24/2018 · Stoughton Trailers, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Cause

Event: Struck by discharged object or substance
Source: Paint, lacquer, shellac, varnish, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Sprayers, air guns-paint

Employer

Name: Stoughton Trailers, LLC
Location: 1111 Veterans Road, STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN, 53589
NAICS: 336212
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning an electrostatic paint gun when the trigger was pulled and air pressure from the electrostatic paint gun injected undercoating material into his left index finger. The trigger was not locked out and the electrostatic air valve was not turned off at the time of the incident.

Source

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