November 2021
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Inside the November Issue |
Know Your Triggers
Nail Gun Safety
Nail guns are powerful, easy to operate,
and boost productivity for nailing tasks.
They are also responsible for an estimated
37,000 emergency room visits each year.
Severe nail gun injuries have led to construction
worker deaths. Nail gun injuries
are common in residential construction.
About two-thirds of these injuries occur
in framing and sheathing work. Injuries
also often occur in roofing and exterior
siding and finishing.
Nail gun safety starts with understanding the various trigger mechanisms. Here is what you need to know:
How triggers differ
All nailers rely on two basic controls:
a finger trigger and a contact safety tip located
on the nose of the gun. Trigger
mechanisms can vary based on: 1) the order
in which the controls are activated,
and 2) whether the trigger can be held in
the squeezed position to discharge multiple nails OR if it must be released and
then squeezed again for each individual
nail. Combining these variations gives
four kinds of triggers. Some nail guns
have a selective trigger switch which allows
the user to choose among two or
more trigger systems. Each trigger type is
described below along with a summary of
how the controls are activated.
Full Sequential trigger
This is the safest type of nail gun trigger.
This trigger will only fire a nail when
the controls are activated in a certain order.
First, the safety contact tip must be
pushed into the work piece, then the user
squeezes the trigger to discharge a nail.
Both the safety contact tip and the trigger
must be released and activated again to
fire a second nail. Nails cannot be bump
fired. Also known as single-shot trigger,
restrictive trigger, or trigger fire mode. Full story »
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