Nail Gun Safety: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  Serious - even fatal - injuries are happening to workers using these tools. What's the problem? Nail guns are popular for a reason. They get the job done in a blink of an eye. But that rapid-fire action can work against you. In a split second, a nail can enter your finger, your hand, or worse. Nail gun injuries are much more common than people think. Most injuries involve puncture wounds to hands or fingers, but serious, even fatal, injuries are also associated with the use of these tools. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Equipment-design Hand-injuries Hand-tools Injuries Injury-prevention Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Tools Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Hazard Alerts
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039604
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2008 Jan; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Nail gun safety: hazard alert
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:33dd226cabdbc6cb778d43c79b83dc117e8a401a640cf3606a831b098dec8b2e84f6bfadab4f76840e1f8ed975142ebcb67ea9b37b5d2062e6afcf56b33bc588
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213090/cdc_213090_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 26.27 KB ]