Incident date: 2018-08-17
NAICS industry code: 321991

On August 17, 2018, an employee was stepping over a rafter while holding a pneumatic staple gun when the gun hit the employee's right ankle and shot a staple into it. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Staples
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate