Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221557606

PALACIOS ROOFING LLC

Event
Chest, Ladder, Nail, Nail gun, Puncture Wound
NAICS
238130
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346653694
Employer profile
PALACIOS ROOFING LLC
Summary number
221557606
Report ID
1032500
Project type
A
Construction end-use
B

Event description

Employee is killed when shot with nail gun

Investigation abstract

At 1:30 p.m. on April 22, 2023, an employee was installing sheet rock backing. While climbing a 7-8-foot A-frame ladder, he shot himself in the chest with a Paslode nail gun. The employee sustained a fatal puncture wound to the right side of chest.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 57 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    595
    Fall distance
    4

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