Subsonic Chronic
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Nail shot into skull
Roofer in hospital after scary mishap
By KIM BRADLEY, TORONTO SUN
A Toronto man who was nailed in the head on a construction site yesterday was talking and resting comfortably after having the 7 1/2-cm-long spike surgically removed from his skull.
The man, identified as Benjamin, was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital with the finger-length nail imbedded in the crown of his skull after a high-powered nail gun accidentally went off at noon.
"I don't know what happened," Mike, the injured man's partner, said before he rushed off to the hospital from the Dundas St. and Jones Ave. worksite.
"It was an accident. I'm upset."
Dave Endicott, the building's owner, said the banging and crashing sounds above him stopped around noon, but he assumed the workers had just gone for lunch.
"Then this paramedic shows up asking where the injured man with the nail in his head is," he said. "I didn't know it had happened. He didn't scream or anything."
Mike had the nail gun in his hand when it went off, Det. Ron Khan said. The nail was imbedded in the back of Benjamin's skull as flush as it would be in a piece of wood. The victim was conscious, breathing and talking as he was moved from the slippery, 7-metre-high rooftop. Doctors weren't sure if they could remove the nail because of the effects it might have on his brain.
But Staff-Sgt. Tom Lynch said the surgery was a success and by dinner time the victim was in stable condition.
"The extent of the damage remains to be seen," Lynch said. "He's a very lucky man to still be with us."
Roofer in hospital after scary mishap
By KIM BRADLEY, TORONTO SUN
A Toronto man who was nailed in the head on a construction site yesterday was talking and resting comfortably after having the 7 1/2-cm-long spike surgically removed from his skull.
The man, identified as Benjamin, was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital with the finger-length nail imbedded in the crown of his skull after a high-powered nail gun accidentally went off at noon.
"I don't know what happened," Mike, the injured man's partner, said before he rushed off to the hospital from the Dundas St. and Jones Ave. worksite.
"It was an accident. I'm upset."
Dave Endicott, the building's owner, said the banging and crashing sounds above him stopped around noon, but he assumed the workers had just gone for lunch.
"Then this paramedic shows up asking where the injured man with the nail in his head is," he said. "I didn't know it had happened. He didn't scream or anything."
Mike had the nail gun in his hand when it went off, Det. Ron Khan said. The nail was imbedded in the back of Benjamin's skull as flush as it would be in a piece of wood. The victim was conscious, breathing and talking as he was moved from the slippery, 7-metre-high rooftop. Doctors weren't sure if they could remove the nail because of the effects it might have on his brain.
But Staff-Sgt. Tom Lynch said the surgery was a success and by dinner time the victim was in stable condition.
"The extent of the damage remains to be seen," Lynch said. "He's a very lucky man to still be with us."
