Mark & Juanita wrote:
John Grossbohlin wrote:

An associate had a run in with a framing nailer the other day...

Contributory factors include fatigue, knot, doubled, and subsequent split
that sent the 10d nail out the side of the framing lumber and into the
meat of the thumb/palm. Meat only... missed the bones and tendons.

Note that my negative scanner is not big enough to scan a 13"x18" x-ray so
I had to merge multiple scans in Photoshop... only the second time I tried
this so don't be too critical. ;~)

John

OK, show of hands (sorry), how many here had their hands and toes
involuntarily curl when seeing that? [my hand is up]

Ouch!


Unclenching the old sphincter is going to take a while...