Incident date: 2018-06-08
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was working at a remote job site delivering chemicals. When he had finished delivering chemicals at that location, he began having a headache. The employee was looking for headache medicine in his backpack and removed a handgun from the backpack placing it on the truck console. When he later reached for the gun it discharged into his left hand. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional
code_source: title: Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate