Summary
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Engineers at the Consumer Product Safety Commission privately warned nail gun makers in 2002 that their industry's efforts to reduce the increasing number of people shooting themselves and others with the tools wouldn't really work, newly disclosed federal documents show.
But the engineers' views, and their calls for further study of the popular power tool's safety features, were never addressed or disclosed to U.S. consumers.See the full content of this document
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Nail-Gun Safety Probed in '02
Thousands of professional carpenters and do-it-yourselfers continued to buy or rent nail guns at giant hardware stores across the country during the housing boom with predictable consequences.
The number of people sent to hospitals with hand, foot, knee and head injurie...See the full content of this document
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