Struck by discharged object or substance · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hixson Lumber Sales of Louisiana, Inc., 207 Thomas Mill Road, WINNFIELD, LOUISIANA 71483
on , Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee had just finished nailing a fence panel using a nail gun. As he extended his arm down into a resting/hanging position with his finger still on the trigger, another employee walked behind him and was struck in the lower leg with the nail gun, which actuated and drove a nail into his leg. The injured employee was hospitalized overnight.