Hospital emergency room visits due to nail-gun injuries among do-it-yourself carpenters tripled between 1991 and 2005 in the United States, a new analysis shows. Nails driven into hands or fingers accounted for two-thirds of the wounds.
Between 2001 and 2005, U.S. emergency rooms treated roughly 37,000 people annually for pneumatic nail-gun injuries. Nearly 15,000 of these were weekend carpenters, a yearly figure far outpacing the 4,200 such do-it-yourselfers in 1991.
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