Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221455819

PORTER CORP.

Event
Eye, Impaled, Installing, Insulation, Nail, Nail gun, Panel, Projectile, Shot, Struck By
NAICS
332311
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345908511
Employer profile
PORTER CORP.
Summary number
221455819
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee losses eye by nail gun misfire

Investigation abstract

At 7:25 p.m. on November 2, 2021, an employee was using a Paslode Compact Framing nail gun to install an insulated structural panel from under the panel. The employee did not have the nail gun at a 90 degree angle to the surface when he discharged the gun and shot a three-inch collated nail into his left eye. The employee was hospitalized to treat the loss of his left eye.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 55 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    733

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