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Post by CMF Newsman on Apr 14, 2007 6:28:22 GMT -5
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 1991, nailgun injuries have risen about 200 percent, the CDC said in its weekly report on death and disease. "This increase likely corresponds to an increase in availability during the 1990s of inexpensive pneumatic nail guns and air compressors (to power the nail guns) in home hardware stores; however, no sales data are available for confirmation," the CDC reported. But when the CDC looked at who was getting injured, it became clear that the number of work-related nailgun injuries had stayed stable since 1998. It was consumer-related injuries that had soared. story |
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Post by erinslion on Apr 14, 2007 9:43:28 GMT -5
Ah-yup. A framing gun can be a deadly weapon.
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Post by Jay on Apr 14, 2007 9:54:30 GMT -5
In Beavis voice......"Nailguns are cool, heh heh heh heh heh"  |
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 14, 2007 13:00:43 GMT -5
Injuries? It's because we shoot them at one another.
I guess we'll have to go back to throwing rocks.
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 14, 2007 13:36:40 GMT -5
That's the #1 reason why I don't let 'my boys' have one.
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Post by erinslion on Apr 14, 2007 15:02:02 GMT -5
Technically, you can't shoot them at each other, there is a safety feature built in to the gun that requires a certain amount of positive pressure against the tip before it will fire.
However....
1. The ingenuity of idgits to disable the safety features of any device is underestimated.
2. When you shoot a nail too close to the edge of your work (say 15 years or ago when you were new to the business and putting corners together) the nail will shoot right through the wood and on into other potentially fleshier targets. Don't ask how I know that.
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Post by Bob on Apr 14, 2007 15:21:54 GMT -5
I'm curious why it matters to the Center for Disease Control.
Are nail-guns a disease? or do they classify stupidity as an illness??
(Which means we're all "sick" from time to time) ;D
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 14, 2007 20:51:12 GMT -5
Is it stupidity or redneckism?
I really need to know.
I'm not telling you why I need to know, though.
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Post by Gary on Apr 15, 2007 11:11:26 GMT -5
> I'm curious why it matters to the Center for Disease Control.
The CDC deals with public safety issues as well as public health issues, with an emphasis on reventable injuries.
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Post by joedog on Apr 15, 2007 11:13:48 GMT -5
with an emphasis on reventable injuries. Hmmmmm, Did you drink your 5 Guinness last night? |
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Post by Gary on Apr 15, 2007 11:39:05 GMT -5
Um... pre-ventable.
And I only had three Guinnii last night.
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Post by joedog on Apr 15, 2007 12:26:41 GMT -5
Well you left two up there then.......
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Post by Bob on Apr 15, 2007 13:58:35 GMT -5
The CDC deals with public safety issues as well as public health issues, with an emphasis on preventable injuries. Thats what I thought, but it still sounded funny. "The medical team reported today he died from Stupid-man-with-nailgun syndrome..." |
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