Be Careful when working with a Nail Gun ....

[MilDoc]

Or this could happen to you, too.....

[RAFlorida]

What was his excuse??

"Well doctor, I had an itch and that nailer was doin' fine till I pulled the trigger." BTW, in no way am I trying make light of something that could be very dangerous or deadly.

[leehljp]

I am curious - what was the outcome of this situation?

As per your post on most dangerous tools some months ago - the nail gun is the sleeper of dangerous tools. It is usually not thought of as being in the "most dangerous" group per se, but IMO it has one of the highest percentage of accident rates per tool usage.

One of the problems with nail guns is its own intrigue. It just "invites" stupidity testing. When placed in an environment with whirling blades of all kinds, it just seems placid by comparison. That is probably why "some" people are intrigued to "experiment."

[Uncle Cracker]

This one's been making the rounds in the news the last couple of days... The guy got hung up in the hose while putting up some lattice, and the gun went off. The doctors actually borrowed a claw hammer from hospital maintenance (I kid you not!), and yanked the nail out just as you would from a 2x4... The guy is fine... (and awful lucky)

[cabinetman]

Looking at the location of the nail, it appears to be at the side rear of his skull. Maybe he wasn't the shooter.
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[Hellrazor]

Maybe they should have a mandatory waiting period and a common sense test before being able to pick it up

[Ed62]

One of the problems with nail guns is its own intrigue. It just "invites" stupidity testing. When placed in an environment with whirling blades of all kinds, it just seems placid by comparison. That is probably why "some" people are intrigued to "experiment."

I've laid more roofing shingles than the average guy, and I used a roofing nailer. When you get used to using one when laying shingles, you just keep the trigger pulled, and slap the gun down on the shingle to shoot a nail. You can lay shingles very fast that way, but just a small slip, and you can have a problem. One of my sons shot himself in the leg. The nail couldn't be easily removed, and he couldn't bend his leg after he shot it. It was quite a job getting him down a ladder so we could get him to the emergency room.

Ed

[RAFlorida]

Ed62, did your son full recover from his accident?

I'm hoping so. Did the nail hit a bone? Been in the construction trade all my life and know how it can be with those tools.

[buckeye95]

What doesn't make sense to me about this is that the information I read stated this happened when one of the guys was messing with the hose:

"Chandler was holding up lattice for his backyard deck while his friend, Phil Kern, stood on a ladder with a nail gun. Kern, also 60, was trying to unkink the nail gun's tangled compressor hose when, without warning, the gun fired a single nail."

This sounds very odd to me. I wonder if they had the bump feature disabled or it was broken ? Maybe he was trying to swing the nailer to unkink the hose and he bumped the edge of the head enough to engage the safety and shoot the nail, but it was no pressed on material and shot off? Short of a major failure with the gun's safety, "without warning" sounds fishy to me. Nail guns have to make the legal departments of some of these companies cringe.

On a side note, I read an article a few months ago that described the huge increase in nail gun injuries with the introduction of them into the consumer and DIY markets.

Be safe.