Incident date: 2020-07-09
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was standing at two sawhorses, assembling pieces of wood to be part of a larger concrete form work. She was holding a 2-by-4 with her left hand and a gas-powered nail gun in her right hand. When she fired a 16-penny nail into the wood, it hit a knot, turned out, and punctured her left index finger.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate