# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Wooden Pallets, LTD.
> OSHA SIR `2020043459` · 4/15/2020 · SILSBEE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
- **Secondary source:** Nail guns-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Wooden Pallets, LTD.
- **Location:** 3840 Henry Read Rd., SILSBEE, TEXAS, 77656
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching under a nail table where nail guns are kept when he struck the handle of a nail gun with his head and it discharged a nail into the back of his head. He was hospitalized.

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