Posted on 08/16/2017 5:46:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"I thought it just nicked me. I looked down. I couldn't see anything,"...
As he tugged at his sweatshirt, Bergeson, 52, said he realized only about 1 inch of the 3-inch nail was sticking out of his chest...
So he washed up, hopped in his truck and made his way to Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette, about 10 minutes away. After parking his truck and walking into the ER, Bergeson said he started to feel more pain and summoned a security guard for help.
"If you could find someone that would be great, I'm just going to sit down," he told the guard...
After X-rays were taken, Bergeson was rushed by ambulance to Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay. "I offered to drive myself, but they wouldn't let me," Bergeson said, chuckling...
Bergeson spent just two days in the hospital and has been recovering at home since the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc11.com ...
At least 3 of the Four Rules of Gun Safety apply to nail guns, too. But, of course, Democrats and the Media will not allow gun safety to be taught to American schoolchildren.
On a nail gun, as also on a firearm, the safety is YOUR FINGER. Mechanical devices can fail. Safety is YOU, and following rules 1 through 3 of the Four Rules of Gun Safety.
Din do nothn!
Got witnesses!
Got lawyer will sue.
Not you, but for others - it’s easy to grandstand, but when you do work like that enough, you will have close calls (many), and only fortunate ones (like me, so far) will not have to pay a permanent price. It’s virtually impossible to always be cautious...100% of the time.
The medical system I have worked at makes all its employees get drug tested if we so much as trip and fall on the floor or even get scratched by a patient!
“Every nail gun I’ve ever used has a safety catch”
My climbing partner was a carpenter and went west to climb in The Valley, also took a job framing.
The job frightened him!
He said all the nail guns had the had the safety removed or jammed up for bump nailing.
You get used to moving holding the trigger down.
Yes, you still need to pull the trigger, but if you brush the nose it fires with the trigger pulled.
OSHA came by the job, checked the extension cords never looked at the nail guns.
Sounds like the Mega Corp I worked for. I was inside-the-building security. We were trained on the proper use of fire extinguishers, but were forbidden to use one, even to put out a simple trash can fire.
When we did have a fire, it was because an idiot engineer jury-rigged a 110 volt printer to plug into a 220 volt outlet. We successfully hid the cause of that fire from the FD and the insurance adjuster through the judicious application of security requirements.
No. Entirely possible, depending on exactly where the nail entered the heart.
Wonder if this guy has his own coffee mug in the ER? :-)
I have personally attended and presented around a million or more safety classes.
And stayed awake through most of them.
They often point out that three near misses and you are due for a hit.
And you're to blame....
Lol, perhaps these days, but not in 1973 when I was worked on a house framing crew. There was certainly no “safety” on those nail guns. I got so comfortable with the nail guns that I would swing the gun up by the hose and grab hold of it. One time, as I tried to get hold of the gun, I guess I hit the trigger as I swung up the gun. The gun fired a nail into my upper thigh muscle. I didn’t feel a thing, but when I looked down, I saw the nail sticking out of my leg. I think only about an inch of so of the nail went in. I just reached down and pulled it out. The weird thing was, it never hurt and it never even bled after I pulled it out. I guess it went in and came out very cleanly.
That’s one way to end iron poor blood.
Yipe! Then I’m way overdue!
“But they wouldn’t let me”
All they can do legally is to order you off the premises. They can recommend whatever but they cannot force you to do anything including staying. That would be kidnapping.
Remember this everyone!
” drug tested if we so much as trip and fall on the floor”
S.O.P.
A friend that works at a nuclear power plant says they had to ‘play a video game’ if they go off site at lunch.
To test for impairment.
He gave nail guns, a bad name (a bad name)
Yes, I’d bet just the tip touched the heart itself, especially if the nail only penetrated two inches total.
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