Incident date: 2021-09-02
NAICS industry code: 321991

An employee was shooting brads into the top of a house. The brads came in sleeves, held together by plastic fasteners designed to fall off when the gun was fired. As it came off, one of these plastic fasteners struck and injured his left eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged or flying object, unspecified
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate