Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

A veterinarian was drawing blood from a patient for a test when the dog pulled her arm and jerked it back. The needle went into the veterinarian’s thumb about an inch. Her hand started swelling in the evening. She later went to the hospital for an infection.

An employee was approaching a cat (a veterinary patient) when it bit her left middle finger.

An employee was using a nail gun to frame the chimney area of a house when the gun shot a nail into his right lower leg. He was hospitalized and had surgery to remove the nail.

A machinist was filing a burr using a CNC lathe. The file ejected from the machine, hitting him in the abdomen and perforating his small intestine. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery.

An employee was cutting flashing on a machine when the flashing stabbed his hand between the index finger and thumb, cutting a tendon. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was washing off the machine wash rack area using a spray wand. He then started washing down the wash rack floor, stepping backwards while continuing to wash in a side to side motion. The pressure washer wand went across his left knee area; the water punctured his jeans and his skin just above […]

An employee was reaching under a nail table where nail guns are kept when he struck the handle of a nail gun with his head and it discharged a nail into the back of his head. He was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning his knife at the end of a shift. The knife stabbed his left hand, puncturing his cut-resistant glove and cutting an artery. He was hospitalized.

An employee was stabbed while fighting with a customer. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee had just finished unloading a pallet of product. The employee picked up the empty wood pallet to place it on top of the stack of empties and got a splinter in their right hand. The next day, the employee was hospitalized due to an infection in the hand.