In the US, almost 42,000 people each year go to emergency rooms with injuries from roofing nails which are commonly used by nail guns, as per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. 40% of those wounds occur to customers. Roofing Nails injuries increased 300% in between 1991 to 2005.
Wounds to the fingers, hands, and feet are the three most common, but there are also injuries that contain other body areas and internal organs. Some of these injuries are major and several have resulted in death.
All types of nail guns can be hazardous, so safety measures firearm are usually suggested for their use. For protection, nail guns are designed to be used with the silencer (muzzle) touching the target. Except specially customized for the purpose, they are not efficient as bullet weapons.
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The firing mechanism is generally dual-action contact-trip trigger, which need the manual trigger and nose contact component both be press down for a nail to be discharged. The sequential-trip trigger, which is reliable, need the nose contact to be press down before the manual trigger, Instead simultaneously with the trigger. Almost 65% to 69% of wounds from contact-trip tools could be prevented through the use of a sequential-trip trigger.
