Incident date: 2025-05-21
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was installing plywood on a roof when a nail that shot out of a pneumatic nail gun ricocheted off another nail and struck him in the upper nasal area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Nails, brads, tacks, spikes
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Nose, nasal cavity
severity: moderate