Incident date: 2016-09-09
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was using a pneumatic nail gun to secure roof decking when a nail shot through the employee's shoe into the top of the foot and was embedded in the bone. The employee required overnight hospitalization and surgery.

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: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate