Incident date: 2022-08-08
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee and a co-worker were repairing a pallet, with the co-worker holding the repair parts and the employee using a pneumatic nail gun to nail the parts together. The co-worker lost control of the repair parts and they struck the employee, causing the employee's left middle finger to become nailed to a board.

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