Incident date: 2024-11-25
NAICS industry code: 321991

The injured employee was holding the rafters at the roof build table area while a co-worker attached them to the roof frame using a pneumatic nailer. A four-inch nail ricocheted and pierced the employee's left shoulder resulting in injury to an artery and the left lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Nails, brads, tacks, spikes
code_nature: title: Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate