Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202469342 - Employee gets a nail puncture on left eyebrow

Accident Summary Nr: 202469342 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 06/04/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312437387	07/01/2010	1521	236115	D A Williams Construction Inc

Abstract: At approximately 9:00 am on June 4, 2010, Employee #1, a framer, of D A Williams Construction Inc., sustained a nail puncture above his left eyebrow from a 3 inch framing nail which caused severe damage to his left eye. Employee #1 was working from an A frame ladder using a Hitachi pneumatic nail gun to nail the header in a closet. The nail hit a knot on the wood header and bounced up, which caused the nail gun to come down on the front lip of Employee #1's hard hat. It then fired a nail through the hard hat and into the left eyebrow. The Hitachi in the accident was in good mechanical shape with a properly functioning safety. Employee #1 was treated at Kern Medical Center and transferred to a specialist in Huntington Memorial Hospital.

Keywords: EYE, NAIL, LADDER, PUNCTURE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000	1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	312437387			Hospitalized injury	Puncture	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing interior walls, ceilings, doors Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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