Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Name: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Wooden Pallets, LTD.
Start: 4/15/2020

1 hospitalization · 2020043459 · 4/15/2020 · Wooden Pallets, LTD.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Head, unspecified
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: Wooden Pallets, LTD.
Location: 3840 Henry Read Rd., SILSBEE, TEXAS, 77656
NAICS: 321920
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was reaching under a nail table where nail guns are kept when he struck the handle of a nail gun with his head and it discharged a nail into the back of his head. He was hospitalized.

Source

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