Incident date: 2020-11-13
NAICS industry code: 321992

Employee was working with a 3.5-inch air nail gun to assemble wooden trusses on the production line at a modular home manufacturing plant. As he tried to free a stuck air line running to the gun, the hose cam loose. The gun swung into his leg and fired a nail into the leg above the knee.

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: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate