LAKE CITY, FLORIDA—
Champion Home Builders, Inc.
Struck by discharged object or substance · Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels
Final narrative
The injured employee was holding the rafters at the roof build table area while a co-worker attached them to the roof frame using a pneumatic nailer. A four-inch nail ricocheted and pierced the employee's left shoulder resulting in injury to an artery and the left lung.
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