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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