Be Careful when playing with your Toys!!

[Rmitchell55]

Here's what happens when you are working on the Sabbath and not resting as God wishes. This happened Christmas Eve and I waited until Tuesday to go to the Emergency Room. Surgery was Tuesday Night. This was a 16 Ga. 2 inch nail.

 

[rhino 2]

Here's what happens when you are working on the Sabbath and not resting as God wishes. This happened Christmas Eve and I waited until Tuesday to go to the Emergency Room. Surgery was Tuesday Night. This was a 16 Ga. 2 inch nail.

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Playing with a nail gun??

 

[Sidecarbill]

Playing with a nail gun. Yes I put a finger against it to see if it had any power.The answer is yes.:Shrug:

 

[rhino 2]

Playing with a nail gun. Yes I put a finger against it to see if it had any power.The answer is yes.:Shrug:

Almost like looking down a mortar tube when you have a hang fire.....

 

[Notgrownup]

Hey man, hold my beer, watch this.

 

[ROAD DOG]

Oh, My F%CKIN God I feel that ! long time ago I was drilling a hole in a rear 1/4 panel putting in patch panel with a 1/8" bit holding the other side the drill bit went into my finger into the bone and broke off, lucky for me it was sticking out enough that my boss took a pair of vise grips and turn it out backwards. This looks a lot worse; how did they get out? put you hand in a vise & yank on it with a claw hammer. Mine was 45 years ago & every cold day when my fingers get cold, I can feel that thing. Good luck

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Had an air stapler go off while I was climbing a ladder years ago. Ended up with a 2.5'' staple in the palm of my left hand, through my leather glove and next to my ring finger bones in the palm.

Told a buddy to come over here and gave him my gerber plier and had him pull it out. The staple was serrated and I could feel each and every one of them hit the bone as he pulled it out. Put some anti-bacteria ointment on it, and went back to work. Hand was a little stiff for a couple days. Still have that staple!

Never did hurt very bad, just lucky it didn't go into my bone.

 

[Phu Cat]

I'll bet THAT smarts!!!

Did it come from the factory with a nail already in the gun??? Sounds like a lawsuit to me.

 

[rhino 2]

View attachment 116198I'll bet THAT smarts!!!

Did it come from the factory with a nail already in the gun??? Sounds like a lawsuit to me.

Yeah the new American way to get rich…. sue everybody for your own negligence..

 

[Jack Klarich]

Ouch, that looks painful

Have you had it removed yet?

I did something similar @ work, I had a piece of stainless steel rod puncture my hand, it went all the way thru, I pulled it out and worked the rest of my shift

The next day my index finger was swollen twice its size, I had a tendon sheath infection

I hope you fair OK from this injury

 

[Z06tacoma]

I had a guy in my crew that had a bad habit of resting the business end of a nail gun on his knee. We always gave him grief about it.

Sure enough, he shot a nail in it and had to take him to the ER.

He asked me to call his wife and I did. Her response when I told her what happened:

"again?!"

 

[rhino 2]

Another cause of accidents with the nail guns, Is some people will disarm the safety switch, so it shoots a nail as soon as it makes contact with the shingles. This way they can nail faster..

 

[Rmitchell55]

Had surgery on it Tuesday night. Went from pre-op to the OR and the nurse said do you want him on the operating table, and the surgeon said no this is going to be quick so just bring over that table and we will leave him on the gurney. The Surgeon sliced open the pad on my thumb and with a pair of needle nosed pliers grabbed hold of the head of the nail and gently with a little bit of twisting pulled it out. It is my nail gun. I was putting up some trim work and was having trouble with the gun with nails sticking and sometimes the gun trying to shoot two nails at the same time. It was jammed and I sat down and for some reason I did not disconnect the air hose.

At first I thought the "hammer" got me, but when the bleeding stopped and I saw the small tiny hole I knew that that had to be a nail and when I could not bend my thumb the nail went through the bone in the first two joints of the thumb.

 

[rhino 2]

Had surgery on it Tuesday night. Went from pre-op to the OR and the nurse said do you want him on the operating table, and the surgeon said no this is going to be quick so just bring over that table and we will leave him on the gurney. The Surgeon sliced open the pad on my thumb and with a pair of needle nosed pliers grabbed hold of the head of the nail and gently with a little bit of twisting pulled it out. It is my nail gun. I was putting up some trim work and was having trouble with the gun with nails sticking and sometimes the gun trying to shoot two nails at the same time. It was jammed and I sat down and for some reason I did not disconnect the air hose.



At first I thought the "hammer" got me, but when the bleeding stopped and I saw the small tiny hole I knew that that had to be a nail and when I could not bend my thumb the nail went through the bone in the first two joints of the thumb.

The nails are wax coated/lubricated… about 15 years ago we were redoing the shingles on the Camp roof and we had three nail guns going and then one of my buddies decide to take over and that was a gun with the/trigger safety switch tied back,And he put right in the meaty part of his thigh, but luckily it was sticking out a little bit. I just grabbedc it with my fingers and pulled it straight out little Neosporin, and a Band-Aid and he was good to go …

 

[Zammy]

Dang Ray, certainly glad that you're ok.

 

[1dn5up]

Ray , not to play with shooting objects . Feel better bud …

 

[ol' school]

Dang Ray, that had to hurt! Glad surgery went well. Get better!

 

[Papa Zook]

OUCH! Damn Robert, how did I miss this?