# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Engineering Remediation Resources Group
> OSHA SIR `2016032648` · 3/30/2016 · FORT IRWIN, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Firearms, law enforcement, and other self-defense equipment, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Screwdrivers-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Engineering Remediation Resources Group
- **Location:** 6227 Barstow Road, FORT IRWIN, CALIFORNIA, 92310
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was using a screwdriver to clean the dirt from the nose of the fuse. This caused the fuse to detonate and the back end of the fuse punctured his hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*