Incident date: 2018-10-03
NAICS industry code: 423330

Two employees were engaged in horseplay with an industrial staple gun when the gun fired, impaling an employee on the right side of the abdomen. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by physical contact during horseplay
code_source: title: Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate