Nail-Gun Injuries Among Consumers Rise With Sales, U.S. Says

Nail-Gun Injuries Among Consumers Rise With Sales, U.S. Says

By Elizabeth Lopatto

April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Nail-gun injuries among U.S. consumers tripled from 1991 to 2005 as the products became more readily available, a report says.

In 2005, 13,400 people sought emergency care for harm related to the tools, researcher's said in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The most-common injuries were puncture wounds, with or without the injection of foreign objects such nails into the body, which together accounted for 87 percent of the reported incidents.

The nail-gun injuries have extended to homes and garages what formerly was a hazard seen mostly in workplaces, such as construction sites, according to the report, published by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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What a thoroughly useless and typical report from the alarmist press.

Consumer injuries tripled, but no quantification on how much sales had increased. The rate of injury is what is key here. If sales more than tripled, then the injury rate decreased - ergo no problem. But that doesn't provide a juicy story and advance the career of the reporter.

Another facet ignored is the higher injury rate for new users than for experienced users. I'd venture to guess that the percentage of new users is much higher for consumers than for professionals.

Critical thinking is a sorely missing skill in today's news organizations.

On the plus side at least there was no call for increased or new government regulation of this serious threat to society.

Art

Look out... here come the insurance lobbies...... their lawyer getting out their miniscule type-writers for that small print on the medical coverage. The scent in the air is a blend of sulphur and lawyers... All we need is a minority to catch a nail in wood-class...

Agreed, but still trying to figure out what's newsworthy about injuries rising with sales in the first place.

What _would_ be newsworthy is if they didn't.

The most-common injuries were puncture wounds, with or without : the injection of foreign objects such nails into the body, which : together accounted for 87 percent of the reported incidents.

What I want to know is: What were the other 13%, if not puncture wounds? Drops-on-foot? Sore fingers? ????

-- Andy Barss

Your obviously not bucking for a radio talk show.

Mike m

Stuff like:

You see, when Jimbob comes into the ER with a tubafor stapled to his privates, they just put "Other" on the forms.

-Leuf

clear. Tom

Father Haskell wrote: : On Apr 12, 8:59 pm, Andrew Barss wrote: :> LarryLev wrote: :>

:> The most-common injuries were puncture wounds, with or without :> : the injection of foreign objects such nails into the body, which :> : together accounted for 87 percent of the reported incidents. :>

:> What I want to know is: What were the other 13%, if not puncture wounds? :> Drops-on-foot? Sore fingers? ???? :>

:> -- Andy Barss

: Stuff like: :

-- Andy Barss

ROTFLMAO!!

They should put that as an option on the forms. "Nature of injury: Too ridiculous to describe." That would also cover the times that they have to pull Sanitation Worker Barbie out of somebody's bunghole and the like.

Swingman, You are right, there's not much newsworthy about dog bites man, but let a man bite a dog. Joe G

Six of 'em. From three sides. By accident.

Right.

Bill

Which is surprisingly common these days. I remembered a news item about such an incident and googled "man bites police dog" and found more articles than I cared to link, not all describing the same incident--the first two mention a guy in Kansas City and one in Canada.

Survival 101--never bite anything that has more teeth than you do unless it's dead.

Snip

I hope none of our Govt., drones read this in Oz, or at best we will end up having to have a licence and at worst nail guns will be banned. ;)

regards John