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Wrongful Death Suits Skyrocket as Nail Gun Injuries Escalate

Rancho Santa Fe, CA: The housing explosion of the early part of the millennium caused the popularity of nail guns to rise significantly throughout the housing construction industry. Nail guns were designed to make work go faster and to help production rates of construction workers. They were designed to have the capacity to emit as many as thirty nails a minute and the ability for nails to move four hundred ninety feet per second. Nails are propelled from the gun through a compressed air system. Experts equate the nails ability to travel so quickly with that of low-grade missiles. It doesn't matter what surface nail guns make contact with they will fire whether it be into wood or body parts. For this reason wrongful death cases have been popping up throughout the construction industry. This has spurred an increase in wrongful death lawsuits. Experts such as doctors and researchers have been warning for years that the nail guns are extremely dangerous.

Full post as published by Lawyers and Settlements on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).