Incident date: 2015-06-04
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was on a pump jack scaffold installing siding on a residential home using a nail gun. A nail from the gun bounced off the wall and hit the employee in the eye. The nail got stuck in his eye, and he was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate