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[faustus]

Builder survives nailgun accident


This X-ray was taken one hour after the accident
A construction worker has miraculously survived after six nails were embedded in his skull.

Isidro Mejia, 39, was rushed to hospital after his nailgun accidentally went off, shooting nails into his head.

Newspaper reports say doctors at Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles had feared for his life when he arrived.

But Mr Mejia is now out of intensive care and doctors expect him to make a full recovery.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3685791.stm
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[bouyantman]

dumbass!

[faustus]

I found it funny
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[bouyantman]

yea,it's funny how much of a dumbass he is...and in the back of his head!?..how the hell did that happen?

[faustus]

I don't know I'm amazed he is still alive
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[bouyantman]

ditto on that!

[trubador]

..."His colleagues said Isidro was using a nailgun that has both manual and fully automatic settings," said deputy sheriff Dan McPherson. "It appears he slipped and fired into his skull."...

OUCH!!!

[Scarran Raptor]

Dear mr. Mejia,

"Home improvement" episodes are not meant to be used as instructional videos

Sincerely,
Tim Allen

[Jeff O'Connor]

Dear mr. Mejia,

"Home improvement" episodes are not meant to be used as instructional videos

Sincerely,
Tim Allen

:spew:

[abbadon]

So this guy gets hammered ...walks into a bar and asks for a Rusty nail.....oh wrong thread....

[scrape_medic]

:rollin:

[Selena]

Now that's what I call a spinal fusion :g2f:

What I don't understand is how he shot himself in the back of the head? :shrug:

[ShawnaTums]

working over this head maybe and dropped it?

[Selena]

That would account for 1 nail - but 4 to the back of the head and 2 to the side? :shrug:

I own a Porter Cable clipped head framing nailer and it only shoots a nail if you have your finger on the trigger and tap it against a solid surface at the same time.
I wonder what kind of nail gun he had?

[DRD2001]

You can jury rig around the safety features on nail guns like that. This, however, is the reason why you shouldn't.

[mgraylorn]

Hmm, this version of the story is different from the one I read. The one I saw said the guy fell off the roof of a new house under construction and onto another worker on the ground. The worker on the ground had the nail gun and in trying to catch the falling guy, the nail gun went off. This would better explain the nails in the back of the head.

[DentArthurDent]

yeah, that's the story I heard too...

[grinner]

There was a story a couple years ago about a guy who cut his hand off with a circular saw and attempted to kill himself with the nail gun because he couldn't take the pain... so he shot himself in the head with the nailgun.

[Third EYe]

you can't hurt what doesn't exist.

There was a story, a series of them, one each week that dealt with crazy ER stories in a local paper some years back. I remember one of them, this guy was depressed, walked to a remote location in the woods with a .22 bolt action. If you don't know, they are a bit dificult at times to load. He points the barrel at his chest, fires the weapon lodging a round in his chest then passes out. He wakes a bit later, furious he's still alive, repeats the action. He does this 4 more times before getting up walking to his truck and driving to the hospital.

He's probably alive today, watching Scare Tactics.

[sny]

Hmm, this version of the story is different from the one I read. The one I saw said the guy fell off the roof of a new house under construction and onto another worker on the ground. The worker on the ground had the nail gun and in trying to catch the falling guy, the nail gun went off. This would better explain the nails in the back of the head.

That's sounds much like the account I read, but the way it was worded, I sort of interpreted the one I read as saying that both workers were initially above ground level before the fall, the unfortunate fellow on the receiving end being one level above the worker with the nailgun, falling first, and collecting the second worker midway through the fall, so that they both fell to the ground.

You combine an unexpected fall like that with a professional grade, fully automatic nailgun... the victim is probably lucky he was only shot six times. I've seen one of those pro nailguns in action once. They're hair-trigger on automatic and powerful like you wouldn't believe. The ones you can buy at Lowe's are dangerous enough if you point them at the wrong thing, but those pro guns seem like they could just about shoot a needle through an oak tree.

So the poor guy probably doesn't deserve ridiculing. He just had the misfortune to slip directly above a worker with a nailgun.

[Mrelia]

Yikes! My Dad got a nail in the side once when a co-worker of his tried to hand him a nail gun. The bozo had decided that the safety was "inconvenient" and wired it "out of the way." My Dad was OK, but the nail did nick his liver.