Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

An employee was stabbed in the right arm by a coworker, suffering tendon and muscle damage. He was hospitalized.

An employee lost his grip on a sandblasting hose. The abrasive then struck and became embedded in his arm. He was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee was cleaning a paint sprayer when the trigger was activated while his hand was in front of the nozzle, injecting his left middle fingertip with paint. He was hospitalized.

An employee was working on a wooden crate and using a pneumatic nail gun when a nail penetrated his right eye.

An employee was cleaning a cat run and was in the process of placing the cat back in the run when it bit the employee’s right hand, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was trying to catch a feral cat in the store when the cat bit the employee’s hand.

An employee was removing a loose board from the floor of a trailer when he lost his grip and stepped on a nail sticking out of the floor, puncturing his left foot.

A bundle of stacking sticks in the stick staging area busted open. An employee was rebinding the bundle and sustained a puncture wound between the ring and middle fingers from a splinter that punctured the seam of his right glove.

An employee was hospitalized on 10/15/16 when diagnosed with advanced cellulitis on his right leg resulting from puncture wounds from thorny vegetation indigenous to the patrol area.

An employee was using a pressure washer to clean sludge in the bottom of a pit when the pressure washer’s water stream penetrated the employee’s boot and was injected into the top of the left foot.