Incident date: 2019-11-24
NAICS industry code: 423910

A range safety officer was observing a customer at a shooting range who was shooting a handgun when a hot shell casing flew down the customer's shirt, startling her. She stepped back from the firing line, turned towards the range safety officer, squeezed the trigger, and unintentionally shot the range safety officer in the leg. The right leg of the range safety officer was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Shooting by other person-unintentional
code_source: title: Other client or customer
code_nature: title: Gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high