The new ANSI nail gun standard: a lost opportunity for safety

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• Personal Author:
  Branche CM ; Earnest, Gary S. ; Howard J
• Description:
  Pneumatic nail guns have been shown in published studies to cause injury and death to both workers and consumers, but those equipped with sequential trigger mechanisms provide much greater safety protection against unintentional discharge than those equipped with contact triggers. In 2015 the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved a revision to its 2002 nail gun standard, but failed to require sequential triggers. Substantive and procedural deficiencies in the ANSI standard's development process resulted in a scientifically unsound nail gun safety standard, detracting from its use as the basis for a mandatory national safety standard and ultimately from its ability to protect worker and consumer users. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mortality Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: ANSI Conflict Of Interest Fatalities Injuries Nail Guns Pneumatic Tools Safety Equipment Sequential Triggers Work Environment Workers
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  147-151
• Volume:
  60
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048952
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2017 Feb; 60(2):147-151
• Contact Point Address:
  John Howard, MD, Office of the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 395 E Street, S.W., Suite 9200, Washington, D.C. 20201
• Email:
  zkz1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203564/cdc_203564_DS1.pdf
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