Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

An employee was trying to remove a python from a temporary cage. The python bit the employee’s arm.

A boat had capsized and 300 pounds of dead fish were on a shoreline. Employees were gathering the dead fish inside heavy-duty trash bags. A fish fin punctured through its bag while being carried by a coworker and struck the injured employee’s leg. The employee’s leg became swollen and the employee experienced a high temperature, […]

An employee was drawing meloxicam out of a bottle and poked her thumb with the needle. The employee woke up the next day and her hand was swollen. She was hospitalized for infection and surgery.

An employee was holding a knife while putting on his personal protective equipment (PPE) when his PPE fell on the ground. As he bent down to pick it up, the knife punctured his abdomen.

An employee was trying to secure dunnage in a trailer using a pneumatic nail gun. He was in the process of standing up from a kneeling position when the gun’s trigger was caught in his work boots. The tongue of the boots depressed the trigger, causing it to fire a nail into his right lower […]

An employee was trying to remove the rent tag off a self storage door. As the employee was pulling on the tag it popped and punctured the base of their right thumb. The tag required surgical removal.

Two temporary employees engaged in an altercation and one employee sustained a stab wound to the chest.

An employee was struck by a tool while performing hydrostatic testing on a work-over rig. The tool impaled the employee, who required hospitalization and surgery.

Two employees were fighting over a nail gun when one employee was shot in the stomach with the nail gun, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

An employee went to sit down on a bench in a wire line support trailer when he felt pain in his left middle finger. He removed his gloves to investigate and noticed a puncture mark below the first knuckle on his left middle finger. The puncture later became infected, requiring hospitalization.