It is worse than that.
The device has a safety
The "shoe" has to be depressed so you cant just shoot nails through the air.
He depressed it with his head.
Darwin award
Kirk
Bill Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bill Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I to ment no disrespect, just pointing out that in many stories we read and hear common sence seems to be more and more a thing of the past. The other day I heard of a young carpenter that accidently shot himself on the head with a framing nail gun. It seemed to have jammed on him,,,,, you can guess the rest of the story. Fortunally he was not to badly hurt, the nail DID penitrate the skull but not by much. However a few inches one way or another and,,,,? I can't believe that he actually pushed the contact foot back with the thing still hooked up to air and something (finger ?) on or near the trigger.
Mike Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:It wasn't my intent to be insensitive. This was a case of operator
error - a young man didn't realize the danger of methanol fumes
and lost his life.
Appal Energy wrote:
>It's sad to be making any comment on such a matter. Here you had a
>family that was on the edge of not only doing something great but
>putting themselves in an enormously better finanacial window to boot.
>Then the bottom falls out.
>
>I don't wish to insinuate anything about the owner/operators. But I can
>see and have seen where the backyard brewer mindset is being applied to
>commercial environements and is begging for accidents to happen. No
>containment. Open-face motors. Open reactors. Wood-fired boilers in
>close proximity to methanol or methanol fumes.
>
>It's one thing to spill a gallon here or lose a motor there or foul up
>in a small way somewhere else when you're working with a five or perhaps
>a 55 gallon pale. It's altogether another when you're handling thousands
>of gallons at a time.
>
>This is now two plants at least that have been lost to methanol related
>fire/explosions. I don't doubt that there will be more and perhaps
>already have been.
>
>At this scale making biodiesel requires as much concentration as walking
>a tightrope across the Royal Gorge with no balance bar.
>
>I have no doubt that a lot of people are going to fail to make that
>connection.
>
>Todd Swearingen
>
>
>Mike Weaver wrote:
>
>
>
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