Ouch! That’s gotta hurt.
A construction worker on a West Vancouver job site was taken to hospital Monday morning after accidentally stapling a nail into his leg with a nail gun.
The man was working for Ringmaster Construction Management Ltd. at a job site in the 3600 block of Marine Drive in the West Bay neighbourhood, nailing a ceiling joist, when he somehow hit himself in the leg with the nail gun.
The worker couldn’t move his leg or climb down from the roof, so ambulance paramedics climbed up to him. District of West Vancouver Fire and Rescue crews then secured the man into a basket stretcher and lowered him down to an ambulance.
While definitely painful, the injury wasn’t life-threatening, said Jeff Bush, assistant fire chief.
“I don’t think he’ll be going on any cross-country runs for a while,” said Bush.
WorkSafeBC is investigating.
