Nailguns kill

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24th April 2009, 12:34 PM
Waldo

Nailguns kill

G'day,

As if none of us already knew that nailguns don't kill.

Then this poor bloke found out. :yikes:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1...d-with-nailgun
24th April 2009, 05:25 PM
Vernonv

Whoever did that really mustn't of liked the guy ... he was shot with more than just a couple of nails.:o:no:
24th April 2009, 05:27 PM
Waldo

Hope it wasn't a work accident on a union site. :D

(if I may be allowed a joke :U )
24th April 2009, 05:28 PM
Vernonv

I'm pretty sure the BLF were disbanded. :roll:
24th April 2009, 06:02 PM
Big Shed

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vernonv

I'm pretty sure the BLF were disbanded. :roll:

Yep, disbanded in 1986
28th April 2009, 06:27 PM
bille

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waldo

G'day,

As if none of us already knew that nailguns don't kill.

Then this poor bloke found out. :yikes:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1...d-with-nailgun

Going on 50 years ago an apprentice plumber in Perth was shot in the head by a Ramset/Hilti nail a carpenter was using to fix something to a masonry surface, it ricochet and it hit the apprentice in the forehead at about the hairline above his eye, it was a miracle he survived, he ended up with a plate in his head.

Those things have scared the crap out of me ever since.
28th April 2009, 07:06 PM
AlexS

Quote:

Originally Posted by bille

Going on 50 years ago an apprentice plumber in Perth was shot in the head by a Ramset/Hilti nail a carpenter was using to fix something to a masonry surface, it ricochet and it hit the apprentice in the forehead at about the hairline above his eye, it was a miracle he survived, he ended up with a plate in his head.

Those things have scared the crap out of me ever since.

Similar thing happened when the Flinders medical centre in Adelaide was being built. Someone went to Ramset something to the floor, it went straight through an expansion joint and killed a bloke working below.