Posted on 03/04/2005 10:18:48 PM PST by ambrose
Man Shoots Eye With Nail Gun, Pulls It Out
Construction Worker Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Eye With Nail Gun, Then Pulls It Out
The Associated Press
Mar. 4, 2005 - A construction worker accidentally shot himself in the eye with a nail gun and then pulled the 2 1/2-inch nail out of his face, according to a police report and a co-worker.
Joseluis Franco, 19, was using an air-powered, Hitachi nail gun to help build a home Wednesday when a nail bounced back and lodged in his eye, crew leader Rogelio Ocampo said. Franco was nailing a two-by-four to concrete when the nail ricocheted.
Franco was conscious when police arrived at the scene and was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he was treated and released. Police said Friday they don't know the condition of Franco's eye.
Originally from a town near Acapulco, Mexico, Franco has been in the construction business for about three weeks, Ocampo said.
"I don't know what's going to happen to him," Ocampo said. "I don't know if the insurance is going to cover his bills or anything."
As long as you got a tetanus shot, I would have gone back to work too.
When he's at work, my hubby uses electrical tape on cuts. Liquid has little effect on it's sticking power.
I'm direct if nothing else.
Indeed.
You evicerate your abdomen. You amputate your limbs. Let's keep this in proper context.
Then how do we deal with the problem? I am at lost at this point.
Could have been an illegal and the construction company is about to be liable and made to pay a huge fine to worker's compensation I figure.
I wuz cleanin' wax outta my ears with a 20p nail, once. My buddy thought it would be funny to hit my hand. I hate it when that happens. But we had a good laugh.
Damn! I sure stepped in that one.
Kill everyone. If people don't exist, there's no need for the English language. ;P
Or were you referring to the illegal immigrant issue, and not whether "it" was a reference to the nail gun, the immigrant's eye, or the nail? If so, I have no idea beyond deporting them all and possibly militarizing our southern border.
I thought I made that particular point clear. But it is late and I am tired and prone to mistakes.
What you said!!
Classic shop class cult classic: Eddie's Eye
Guess he wasn't present during the standard shop class movie about eye safety. The movie showed a guy having his eye operated on in full color. Blood squirted out his swollen eye socket.
I'm sure its a classic in Mexico as well.
ouch
No doubt. Unsafe practices; probably an illegal worker; probably no safety training for operating the nailer.
By the by I would NOT want to own a home anywhere, let alone huricane country, where 2X4's are nailed to concrete with a 2 1/2 inch nail; that is only 1" penetration, and not even the right type of fastener. 8" X 1/2" diameter concrete-embedded J-bolts, on max 4' centers, anyone?
Headline writing is a lost art.
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