Incident date: 2016-09-16
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was getting equipment ready to head out to the field while a second employee brought a gun to the office to have a third employee look at it.  While the two employees were looking at the gun to correct a malfunction, it went off and shot the employee preparing equipment. The employee was struck in the lower back, hitting the pelvic bone, stomach and large intestine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Shooting by other person-unintentional
code_source: title: Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified
code_nature: title: Gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate