You Need That Like You Need A Nail In The Head!!!!

[Wagon]

"Fine!" the man says to his wife. "I'll take three."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...rs-remove-three-4in-nails-from-mans-head.html

 

[fwduff]

Looks like he went out to get hammered but got nailed instead :ROFLMAO:

 

[JarHed]

OUCH!! I've seen some nasty accidents caused by using a framing nail gun improperly but nothing quite like that.

The funniest was when I was working as a framer, building houses. We were nailing down the plywood decking on the second floor of the house. Now using a nail gun certainly speeds up the process as apposed to hand nailing. But you still have to take some time to insure that the nail hits the joist and all.

Well, one of the guys was doing the nailing as I was cutting and placing the odd shaped pieces. He was going very fast and talking to one of the other guys. all of a sudden I hear this scream and the nail gun gets dropped. He'd put two 16D, long nails, through his foot, through the plywood. Blood everywhere, of course. Couldn't move or remove his foot. Couldn't just pull it up so we had to cut a piece around his foot so we could take him to the Hospital. I remember the foreman tell him,' don't come back without that piece, we need it to finish the deck'. No concern for the guy just get the job done. It was pretty funny when we got to the Hospital. People in the ER were taking pictures supposedly for their 'records'. Still, kinda' funny.

Jar

 

[reddevil1111]

saw the same kind of thing with a finish nail gun in a wood working shop. Nail would hit a knot in the wood and change direction and go into a hand or finger.
Power saws are pretty cool as well.
I saw a guy once that was crossing a busy road with a length of steel pipe. While he waited to have a safe walk across he stood the pipe on end. the pipe came into contact with power lines and killed him.
When I worked in oil fracking I watched a young loud mouth I didn't like straddle a high pressure steel discharge line. He straddled it to hit the coupling holding it together at a better angle to take it apart. It was still under pressure and he had been taught not to do it.
The pipe jumped about 20 feet in the air when he broke the connection. He lost his balls. I smiled. One less jack wagon on the job.

 

[Sarg]

Got two...

Some one on the roofing crew took the guard off a circular saw. Friend of mine was up on the peak trimming cedar shakes, finished the cut, set the saw blade down on his thigh. Bout a six inch slash.

Met a framer that was coming down off the roof, had removed the safety off the nail gun. Set the gun down and put a framing nail behind the knee, to the point he couldn't straighten his leg.

Maybe that's what those guards are there for, ya think?

Sarg

 

[Ned]

The guns that cause 'accidents' are always unloaded. Aren't they?

 

[JarHed]

The guns that cause 'accidents' are always unloaded. Aren't they?

I like that made me smile. I think, actually, most accidents occur when people have put way too many hours in at the job and are just really tired or they've gotten complacent after long use of a tool. I've seen a lot of nasty accidents and had a few myself. You can't work all the years that I have and escape unscathed.

I've used a circular saw for a lot of years but I still always check to see if the guard is closed and the blade isn't exposed before I put it down. Great tool, nasty to tangle with.

Jar