Incident date: 2020-07-23
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was repairing pallets using a hammer, a pallet disassembly pry bar, and a pneumatic coil nailer. While he was placing a new board on a broken pallet, the coil nailer nailed his left middle finger to the board. He was hospitalized, undergoing 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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate