# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Excel Modular Scaffold and Leasing Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20191112092` · 11/21/2019 · TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
- **Secondary source:** Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Excel Modular Scaffold and Leasing Corporation
- **Location:** 502 10th Street, TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, 77590
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing boards from a scaffold. While the employee was pulling a nail from a board with a hammer, the nail flew off and struck the employee between his nose and right eye, becoming embedded in his skin. He was hospitalized.

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