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[Zachry86]

One thing ive learned.... Pull your hand/finger off while your in shock. If you wait till the pain kicks in you'll be stuck and it will be even worse

[bodybager]

I had a similar accident despite following the guideline of keeping hands back from the nail zone. 16d nail split the wood and exited striking foreman between the thumb and index finger about 12" away from the board I was nailing. Penetrated about 1.5" and he pulled it out and put a glove on. Laughed it off and told me to be more careful with the nail gun. That was a tough guy.

Years later, I investigated his death after he was killed from a fall of less than 8 feet through a roof opening.

[tubeyou9878]

You'll-only-do-that-once.Once-­I-was-not-wearing-safety-glass­es.Thnail-came-out

and-struck-me-a-half-an-inch-u­nder-my-eye.About-one-quarter-­of-an-inch-higher-and-it-would­-be-no-eyeball.

[oreoshooter]

my cousin was building a shelter in afgaanhistan while in the military and had a near death experience just like this....except they were messin around with the nail gun and shot him in the chest only missing his heart by a about half a centimeter....never play with something as dangerous as this.

[abeeftec]

For anyone reading these one year later.

Once I was on a roof nailing off plywood and because we had one bent truss that was bent pretty bad my father was down in the house watching the nails as they came through and letting me know if I missed or not and by how far in which direction. One of the nails went through the plywood and hit him right off the side of the eye in the corner from the eye to the hairline cutting open his temple. Wild to me that he was looking so precisely up.

[heathovc]

It's a natural reaction to pull it off.

[kazimann]

That'll hurt in the morning.