Worker is shot in the head with a nail gun

Ocimnet - A construction worker is counting his lucky stars after miraculously surviving a four-inch barbed nail accidentally being driven into his brain.



The unnamed Texas man was handed a nail gun at his work place last Friday when it off, firing a nail into his skull.



It could have left him paralysed or dead, but the man is now making a full recovery after undergoing emergency surgery to remove the nail from his dominant lobe.





Medical City Plano’s Dr Rob Dickerman, the neurosurgeon who carried out the procedure, told Fox News that he had absolutely no room for error.



He said: ‘You make a wrong move or a millimetre away here or there, it can be a disastrous outcome.’



Luckily, the delicate operation was a success.



In an interview with the news channel, Dr Dickerman added: ‘He awoke and did fine. Scans looked good. There really wasn’t a drop of blood on the post-op scan. He did very well. An interesting case with a great outcome and those are always the best.’

He explained that the man’s skull had acted in the same way as a piece of wood, and stopped the nail dead.



Sadly, accidents of this type are far from uncommon, with around 37,000 people needing hospital treatment for nail gun accidents every year, according to the U.S Centers for Disease Control.



The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission puts the annual cost for treating nail gun wounds at around $338million (£205million) a year, when rehabilitation and compensation pay-outs are factored in.







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