Work injury news
18/10/2011

Construction worker suffers nail gun injury

An Essex builder had to be hospitalised on Monday after sustaining a severe construction injury.

Paramedics were sent to a car repair business in Billericay where they found the victim with a six-inch nail driven into his back.

His team had been carrying out staircase repairs at the site when a nail gun fired unexpectedly, the Halstead Gazette has learned.

"A nail gun went off and got him in the back," said a mechanic who witnessed the work accident. "The nail went all the way in."

Shop staff dialed 999 and both paramedic and air ambulance services were dispatched.

Road crews accompanied the man to Basildon Hospital after the helicopter was forced to land too far away from the construction site accident.

"We were called to Perry Street to reports a man had been injured while at work," said a spokesman for local ambulance services.

"He had suffered traumatic injuries and was taken by land to hospital."

Medical staff removed the nail, and the man left hospital within hours of the construction injury taking place. He had since fully recovered and returned to work.