[mylife]

X RAY

[AQGeiger]

Holy cow.

[Joe 6-pack]

There's been a spike in these type of incidents lately. It's about time the industry began to hammer the issue of nail-gun safety.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I've done carpenter work almost twenty years. I've used many nail guns, from the 16d framing guns like the one used to plant those nails in buddy's, to small trim guns.

I work in a shop full of carpenters, and showed them the x-ray of buddy's head. All of us find it hard to believe this was an accident.

Possible yes, just hard to believe.

The first instinct when one is falling with tools in hand is to throw those tools.

[ikka]

The guy's fellow worker probably disabled the safety mechanism on the nail gun.

[wtc911]

About 35 years ago TIME ran a story of a guy who "fell down" while waiting for a bus. When he came to he had a terrific headache that would not go away. After a day or two he went to the doctor who found 6 or 7 .22 entrance wounds. I still remember the diagram showing the path each .22 short took inside his head, none penetrated the skull.

[holymoly]

There's something not quite right about this. I thought nail guns required a fair amount of pressure on the "muzzle" end before they could be fired? I'm wondering if maybe this guy ticked someone off, they held him down, and... thunk thunk thunk thunk thunk thunk.

[nmh]

Whew, he was lucky. He had a VERY good doctor. Hope he's more careful next time.

[Centurion2000]

Construction worker Isidro Mejia had six nails in his head, including three embedded in his brain, one in his spinal column and one in his face.

First quesion, is the guy insured ? Who just paid for these operations ? I hope it was the construction company

Second question, is the contruction company insured well? This man is going to have one interesting payoff.

[zygoat]

"On Wednesday, two weeks after his accident, Mejia said he felt lucky to be alive. Still hospitalized, the construction worker spoke slowly in Spanish. He had lost most of his English-speaking skills, doctors said, when one of the nails entered the frontal lobe of his brain, damaging the speech center."

I feel bad for Isidro, and sincerely wish him a full recovery, but I'll bet his english-speaking skills were lacking before he got nailed.

[small voice in the wilderness]

"The books, they cover bullets and maybe metal from car wrecks, but never nails in the head," the neurosurgeon said.

"Caulk gun....Sandpaper...Putty...PUTTY, nurse...damn, this one doesn't look good...Drywall..."

[Harpo Speaks]

A three-penny nail for your thoughts.

[raybbr]

He had lost most of his English-speaking skills, doctors said, when one of the nails entered the frontal lobe of his brain, damaging the speech center.

A new type of excuse for not learning English?

Also, notice he's a tradesman not a dishwasher or a fruit picker.

[HighWheeler]

Something wrong here.

This would take 6 separate, distinct, and active activations to trigger 6 firings. Then we have the problem of 6 nails with 6 different vectors, 3 of which are in apparent parallel paths.

How would the 4 trigger actuations be done from behind?

How did the relative positions of the guy's head and the nail gun change between each of 6 trigger actuations?

So many questions, so suspicious.