Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202462818 - Employee Is Shot in the Head with a Nail Gun

Accident Summary Nr: 202462818 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 11/29/2005
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300832599	01/10/2006	1761	238160	Tri-Valley Roofing, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 11:30 a.m. on November 29, 2005, Employee #1, a roofing foreman, was reroofing a single story residential structure with a coworker, a roofer. Employee #1 was shot in the head with a D51321 pneumatic roofing nail gun. Employee #1 was transferred to Lompoc Hospital and was then transferred and treated at Cottage Hospital, where he was hospitalized for four days. There were no witnesses to the incident, and the two employees provided different accounts of the incident. Employee #1 stated that he was kneeling on the roof above his coworker, handing shingles to him. He heard a "grudge" sound and felt something grab his head and then something cold on his head. He then blacked out. The coworker stated: "I was shingling right there and he came and sat next to me and I don't know if he was try to move my hose out of the way or if he was trying to give me a shingle. But when I came down he was still under me and the gun hit him." Examination of the gun revealed no modifications.

Keywords: PORTABLE POWER TOOL, HEAD, CONSTRUCTION, ROOFER, STRUCK BY, FLYING OBJECT, PUNCTURE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	300832599			Hospitalized injury	Puncture	Roofers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Roofing Fatality Cause: Other

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