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A series of accidents how involving air-powered nail guns last summer brought home the fact that the productive to and powerful tools are also highly dangerous and need to be handled with respect. In the most tragic case, a framing air nail punctured the heart of carpenter Camillo Juandelos on a home construction site in nailer and how Ocean View, Md., in July, ending the man''s life at the age of 25. Police said Camillo''s brother Jesus was holding the gun that fired the deadly nail.According to reports in the to Delaware News-Journal, the accident took place as air the two men were framing new homes in a development nailer in Ocean View. Jesus had been bending over a stud wall using the air nailer, and then straightened up how and turned to call his brother. But Camillo was not on the other side of the room to as Jesus thought; he was already standing right behind his brother. Camillo made contact with the nose of the nail gun, triggering the bump-nail mechanism and taking the nail in his chest. "It was just a strange thing that happened," air and nailer Ocean View Police Chief Kenneth how and to McLaughlin told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The young carpenter died at the Peninsula Regional air Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A nail-gun accident in Mississippi had a happier outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. Stone County, Miss., contractor Duncan Hatten was crouching down to nailer nail a 2x4 block onto a column when he how lost his balance and fell against the nail gun, which fired two quick nails into his heart. "I just figured I was gonna die," Hatten told local to TV station WLOX. "I air and nailer told my coworker to tell my family that I loved them." But the two framing spikes had narrowly missed major blood vessels, and surgeons were able to remove the how nails from Hatten''s heart in a to two-hour air operation. The nailer smallest, brad nailers which shoot how brads to up to 1-1/4 in. long, often sell for well under $100. You might air be better off buying one.Roofing nailer nailerCOST: $50 per day with how compressorBENEFITS: to Easy as pulling air a trigger and faster than a platoon of hammer-swingers.Driving thousands of roofing nails with a hammer is like scrubbing the floor at Grand Central Station with a toothbrush. Don''t put asphalt nailer shingles on anything bigger than a doghouse how without a roofing to nailer. air For wood shingles, speed up the job with a roofing nailer stapler.
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