# Gunshot wounds at Honeywell
> OSHA SIR `20181010672` · 10/16/2018 · NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional
- **Source:** Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pistol, handgun, revolver
## Employer
- **Name:** Honeywell
- **Location:** 2221 Industrial Rd., NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA, 68410
- **NAICS:** 334514
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on break in his vehicle and had taken his handgun out of his glove box and placed it onto his left thigh/leg. When he was putting the gun back in the glove box, it fired. He was hit in his left thigh, and the bullet exited through his left knee. He was hospitalized.

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