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A series of accidents involving porter air-powered nail guns last summer brought home the fact that the productive and powerful tools are also highly dangerous and need to be handled cable with respect. In the most tragic case, a framing nail punctured the heart of carpenter Camillo Juandelos on a home construction site in Ocean View, Md., in July, ending the man''s life at the age of 25. Police said Camillo''s brother Jesus was air holding the gun that fired the deadly nail.According to reports in the Delaware News-Journal, the accident took place as the two men were framing new homes in a development in Ocean View. Jesus had been bending over a stud wall using the air nailer, and then straightened up and turned to call his brother. But Camillo was not on the other side of the room as Jesus thought; he was already standing right behind nailer his brother. Camillo made contact with the nose of the nail gun, triggering the bump-nail mechanism and taking the nail in his chest. TIPUse the jackhammer parts to crack the concrete, not to punch porter holes. If the chisel bores into the concrete without cracking it, stop and try another spot. Getting a stuck chisel out of solid concrete is a cursing waste of time.Rent the cable and air jackhammer''s smaller cousin, a "chipping hammer" ($30 to $40 per day), for lighter tasks: breaking up a few square feet of basement floor for plumbing nailer work or chipping ceramic tile off a concrete floor.Brad nailerCOST: $50 per day with parts compressorBENEFITS: porter Better results with less time and effort. "It was just a strange thing that happened," Ocean View Police Chief Kenneth McLaughlin told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The young carpenter died at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, cable Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A air and nailer and parts nail-gun accident porter in Mississippi had a happier outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. cable and air Stone County, Miss., contractor Duncan Hatten was crouching down to nail a 2x4 block onto a column when he lost his balance and fell against the nail gun, which fired two quick nails into nailer his heart. "I just figured I was gonna die," parts Hatten told local TV station WLOX. "I told my coworker to tell my family that I loved them." But the two framing spikes had porter and cable narrowly missed major blood vessels, and air surgeons were nailer able to remove parts the nails from Hatten''s heart in a two-hour operation.
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