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Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
1 hospitalization · 2019076760 · 7/5/2019 · Performance Pallet Corp.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Knee(s)
- Nature of injury
- Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
Cause
- Event
- Struck by discharged object or substance
- Source
- Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
- Secondary source
- Nail guns-powered
Employer
- Name
- Performance Pallet Corp.
- Location
- 112 N Mainline Drive, SEYMOUR, WISCONSIN, 54165
- NAICS
- 321920
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was building pallets using a nail gun. As he bent down to nail a pallet, the gun fired into his leg, lodging a nail into his knee.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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