Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

A temporary employee was using a knife to remove a can label when the knife slipped and punctured his abdomen.

An employee was putting on his welding gloves when a spider bit his right hand inside the glove. The bite became swollen and required hospitalization.

An employee was using a cordless impact driver when the bit slipped off a screw head and landed on his left hand, puncturing the palm and requiring hospitalization.

An employee was attacked and bitten by two dogs while visiting a member’s residence.

An employee was grabbing his framing gun when it shot a nail into his leg, requiring surgery and hospitalization.

An employee was handling a metal part as it was being forged in a forging hammer when the part shattered. A hot metal shard shot out of the forging hammer and punctured the employee’s abdomen, causing internal damage. He was hospitalized.

An employee was bitten by a snake on his right ring finger while reading the water meter at a residence.

An employee climbed the steps of a work platform to inspect the passenger side of a pump trailer that was leaking. As he was descending from the platform, he slipped and fell into a sitting position on top of a bracket that went through his coveralls and punctured the inside of his right thigh.

An employee was changing out a blast hose on the underside of a pot when someone recharged the pot, causing blast media to discharge from the lower port and strike the employee on the right side of his face. He suffered an abrasion and blunt trauma to the face from blast grit under pressure. Some […]

An employee was performing maintenance on equipment while pressuring the unit up to the correct PSI. His hand was on top of the equipment when the air punctured his hand.