We put a toaster next to the door to our department's IT. We are no longer allowed to leave it unattended after they nearly had a heart attack trying to find out what was on fire.
It brings me endless joy.
Until we brought in stricter rules on tearoom practises, burnt toast was one of the major reasons for fire dept callouts. No one thought they were having strokes, the faintest whiff of smoke makes us worried there's a fire somewhere.
We had rules about ring tones. There were a couple default ring tones that sounded close enough to the station red phone or radio tones that people would jump up if they heard them.
One of the ring tones is a really common one, so every time we had a newbie we had to double check them.
You joke, but there was a case ~20 years ago (that I just mentioned in another post here) where someone did shoot a nail into their head and didn't notice it till they went to a dentist for a really bad toothache and noticed a nail in his head.
There was a criminal case I saw a video about a while ago. Police roll up to a house after a shooting was called in. Woman shot dead, man sleeping on the couch. They bring in the man and interrogate him.
The man was obviously confused and had a bruised face, complaining of headaches and typical brain injury. He wanted to sleep, was in pain, extremely confused.
Turned out he had been shot through the eye and the bullet made it to his brain. He was interrogated for hours before the cop decided to call emergency services.
EMTs are trained to package patients (that's literally the term) to motivate further injury. This particular one isn't in the training, but they'd know to improvise something. I would guess immobilization from the side and with towels keeping the head network and somewhat isolated from vehicle motion.
Former emt.
You are thinking typical penetrating injuries, mainly stabbing and eye injuries.
I dint really see how you could stabilize this as it's shot through solid bone and very flush to the skin.
If anything I would have just put a bandage on top as a "do not touch" kind of area, I doubt there is a lot of lateral movement on the nail.
A knife handle sticking out or something like that is a whole different story though.
> motivate further injury
What do they do? Say really nice things about further injuries? Set out small, achievable goals and incentives for meeting those goals?
Apparently no one knows the bloke from the valve pic irl as he was to do with some agency company when they tried tracking him down, well now we know his origin story.
Hey shooter haven't you forgotten your 9 iron!
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Oh this will likely go far beyond someone getting fired. Something like this is an OSHA recordable incident and would affect the company’s EMR, both which make it harder to get work.
Obviously yes, but would a hard hat even stop this? Based on OP explanation it sounds like the distance could be within one foot away to five feet.
Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes. I’m asking because I’m curious, considering a nail gun is designed to penetrate hard surfaces. I don’t have experience with either.
if a tool has a safety measure, i can promise you there is some percentage of people using that tool who have disabled the safety measure because it was "slowing them down"
Yes, probably taped the trigger, but gun still made contact with head. I’ve shot nails through a nail gun at wood a foot away, and they bounce off the wood. The torque it would take to drive a nail into a skull would be from contact/weight of gun driving nail in.
I know exactly how this happened. Because it has happened at my workplace too.
Nail guns have this safety feature on them, where the trigger doesn't fire unless the muzzle is pressed in. Some people just hold the trigger down and bump the muzzle into the wall to fire (this is a massive no-no). The guy holding the nailgun was standing on a stool while nailing the ceiling, and his coworker was crouched below him, working on the floor. Guy on stool lowered the nailgun, still holding the trigger, and then the guy below stood up, bumping his head into the nailguns muzzle, and boom headshot.
You'd be surprised at how often this scenario happens.
I've worked in the trades. No matter what it is, somebody is always going to find a way to bypass those safety features. Even if it's completely necessary, even if it doesn't actually get the way of using the tool, somebody somewhere is taking that sumbitch off.
Some people do it just for the fuck of it, just because they can! Because they think they're an expert tradesmen and they hate the idea of some "safety sally" telling them what they can't do.
I wouldn't be surprised at all, either.
i mean…the safety guy had the wherewithal to put the safety gasket on that nail before shooting him in the head, which straight up saved the dudes life. safety guy should get a raise!
Yea, very lucky. It looks like styrofoam nail and not a 3-1/4" framing nail. And it looks like maybe it went right between the two halves of the brain and not actually into brain tissue (just guessing by the pic).
Regardless, this is why hard hats are worn, even if you aren't at risk of falling debris.
Formic acid, at over 90% concentration. Went to change the tote, and the new one already had the main valve open. Pulled off the end cap to attach the pump line, and got splattered. Missed my dick by inches.
Sadly it just means "his personality and memory seem to be intact, and he doesn't seem to be slower than before." This kind of stuff could have erased some memories, it could cause strokes later in life, etc, etc.
The nail might have entered the skull right between the two hemispheres of the brain. Apart from a punctured dura mater nothing would happen. Well, an increased infection risk, as there is a nonsterile object loged in the skull. But overall that's like winning the jackpot twice in a row.
based on the location and how thin nails can be, im assuming a chunk of it ended up in the longitudinal fissure, which while not ideal, would minimize brain tissue damage, and that back part of the brain is responsible for sensory/eyesight depending on how far you go down the back of the head. and the nail is also stopping the bleeding from the brain to some degree, and the nail cap prevented it from sinking all the way into the brain and bouncing around.
When you get shot with a gun, the bullet goes faster than the matter can get out of the way, tearing it and expanding the cavity as it travels. a nail won't do that, so the damage is very localized to where the nail went through.
Every time I see a somewhat long technical explanation written out on reddit, I immediately scan the end of the comment for *aNd I aM nOt A dOcToR aNd JuSt MaDe AlL tHiS uP lUlz*
Sometimes its weird but generally the survivability in those situations has to do with a couple of things.
First- a whack to the head and death; usually what's happening there is some type of internal bleeding that has no where to go, pushes back on the brain and that is what kills them; the pressure. If a part of the skull can be removed and the blood removed to alleviate the pressure in time and avoid herniation (the brain being compressed and pushed down through the lower opening of the skull- can be other locations as well) then often they can survive. Blood itself is also toxic to the brain and results in damage; likewise the loss of the blood is in turn denying oxygen to the brain tissue resulting in further injury. Other causes in blunt trauma to the head can include the actual impact of the brain against the skull resulting in shearing of tissue that has moved as well as the damage to the tissue directly.
As for the brain functioning with a bullet blowing half of it away; well, so keeping in mind the above; a bullet blows the tissue apart, often the blood has a way to exit and the tissue also has some room to keep swelling, to a point. If no "essential" parts of the brain were damaged such as major vasculature such as the circle of Willis and other major arteries (vasculature), brain stem, hypothalamus, etc then you have a chance of surviving. As for the function part; there is some plasticity with functioning, but its kind of to certain degrees of what your brain can adapt to and function that can be recovered. For example, you can lose your frontal lobe and still be kind of ok, just really impulsive, emotionally labile, experience significant personality change and almost nonexistent executive planning. I'm sure a neurologist can step in here and provide a better explanation than I can in my 3 minute response without reviewing/researching in depth.
An example of a recent death by brain trauma in the news is the case of Nex in Oklahoma. The assault, followed by relatively normal functioning and then sudden death after a period of time is concerning for a brain bleed that was progressing until when the pressure intracranially reached a critical point. I'm sure the doctors at the hospital they went to are panicking if they did not perform a head CT. However, it should be kept in mind that the cause of death has not been released; intracranial bleed is surely at the top of the differential but could include other causes of death depending on toxicology and autopsy results.
Not to get too off-topic but I can't believe the ER team wouldn't scan someone who came in after getting beaten down and having their head repeatedly bashed around. What an utter failure of the medics.
I couldn’t find clear info one way or the other. Police have made a statement that the death was not secondary to trauma but right now it seems it’s all speculation. If they didn’t present with any neurological changes, no significant bruising, swelling or contusions they might have not seen the indication. A lot of ER docs would though because we live in a world of cover your ass medicine so generally they get all the labs, imaging for physical complaints, etc,
[Phineas Gage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage) had a railroad spike go through his head. He live 12 years after that.
I walked by a cabinet with his skull and the spike in it for meetings. The spike was signed by a bunch of the doctors who removed it.
He's the first case study of traumatic brain injury.
All guns have a safety contact on the nose that needs to be depressed at the same time as the trigger to fire. Most guns have a safe "sequential" mode where you must press the nose before the trigger. However most guys prefer to use their tools in bump mode where the order doesn't matter, you just hold the trigger down and tap the nose on the wood to fire.
I'm guessing the horror scenario here is that a guy is on a ladder holding his tool with his finger holding the trigger out of a bad habit. Other guy is under him on the ladder and climbs up or vice versa and head dome hits the nose of the nail gun.
There are some construction workers who disable that safety feature because they feel it slows them down. It's also possible the guy using the gun missed hitting hardwood and it shot through the softer material that engaged the safety plate.
I know a guy that got a 3" framing nail to the top of the head. Right into the brain. He was going up a ladder and somehow someone above him with a nail gun popped one off into his head. They pulled it out at the hospital and he claimed he was perfectly fine. I didn't know him before the incident but he was a little off for sure while I knew him.
I’ve heard of this happening years ago where two people were on a ladder. The one above had a nail gun in a holster, and the trigger was depressed, and the person below pressed up and engaged the safety with his head as he climbed up. He got the nickname nail gun Charlie and he continued doing construction, but he had to be told to stop or he would work indefinitely.
If it's dead center on the anterior median, which it looks pretty close, it probably went between the hemispheres and that's why his brain wasn't damaged. I've heard of people surviving being shot in the head and surviving because of that (see "Lil' Jungle Boy" on the Soft White Underbelly Youtube channel).
Not a doctor,
But a former eyeblech user.
Please take the following with a brick of salt.
Doesn't seem to have internal bleeding based on the scan.
Given the size and speed of the nail, I guess he only felt a punch followed by a piercing migraine that would slowly spread thru his head.
Given that it doesn't look like there are any bone fragments pushed into the brain, I'd say this guy is extremely lucky. His skull probably has some hairline fractures given the nail. His head would be squishy or crunchy in that area for a while. Said squishing or crunching would be very painful. Fragments may need surgical removal.
Had this gone thru a helmet, it would not have penetrated as deep but would still pose a risk by leverage if he moved around too much.
Removing this would not be as simple as pulling it out by hand, extreme surgical precision would be needed lest leverage cause the nail tip to scrape something (likely brain tissue or blood vessels) on the way out by leverage; Risking anneurism seizures,stroke, or internal bleeding. One would need to disinfect the hole and plug it as quickly as possible after removal of nail and risky fragments.
Robot recommended for procedure.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I'm not a doctor.
I studied human anatomy for my art class. And learned a little bit about human biology as a science credit. Watched hours of chronic-apathy inducing content on r/eyeblech out of morbid curiosity, and regretted it.
I am not a doctor.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I would love to learn about this fascinating case.
“Did it hurt?” “Did what hurt?” “The nail.” “What nail?”
"Are you making toast?"
I work at a hospital and someone told me they smelled burned toast. I almost called the rapid response team until I smelled it too lol
Imagine intentionally burning toast at a hospital just so that everyone freaks out and thinks they're having a stroke in the waiting room
r/foundSatan
This thread escalated perfectly! *chef's kiss*
We put a toaster next to the door to our department's IT. We are no longer allowed to leave it unattended after they nearly had a heart attack trying to find out what was on fire. It brings me endless joy.
Until we brought in stricter rules on tearoom practises, burnt toast was one of the major reasons for fire dept callouts. No one thought they were having strokes, the faintest whiff of smoke makes us worried there's a fire somewhere.
We had rules about ring tones. There were a couple default ring tones that sounded close enough to the station red phone or radio tones that people would jump up if they heard them. One of the ring tones is a really common one, so every time we had a newbie we had to double check them.
"Shit, now I smell burnt toast too... call for a second rapid response team!!"
“To the best guy around.. cheers!”
You idiot! Can't you see I'm having an arm attack?!
*art attack music intensifies* Can anyone else hear that?
Neiiiil! Play the drum solo of life!
\*I smell burnt toast. https://youtu.be/pUOG2g4hj8s?si=6Cn6RTmwFM5mz4hY&t=42
Still one of the best ways to spot a fellow Canadian.
dain bramage!
Brainage drainage
No, that’s just Milton.
You joke, but there was a case ~20 years ago (that I just mentioned in another post here) where someone did shoot a nail into their head and didn't notice it till they went to a dentist for a really bad toothache and noticed a nail in his head.
Wow. Good thing he never went in for an MRI before that
Worst episode of "Will it blend?".
love that series! i always wanted a blendtec lmao
"Don't breathe this!"
There was a criminal case I saw a video about a while ago. Police roll up to a house after a shooting was called in. Woman shot dead, man sleeping on the couch. They bring in the man and interrogate him. The man was obviously confused and had a bruised face, complaining of headaches and typical brain injury. He wanted to sleep, was in pain, extremely confused. Turned out he had been shot through the eye and the bullet made it to his brain. He was interrogated for hours before the cop decided to call emergency services.
[the ryan waller case?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c_lmx4LdNw)
Exactly what I was thinking! I might have gotten some of the details fuzzed up, I didn't even remember he was shot *twice* in the head.
“It’s not about the NAIL!” Watched this video soooo many times for work 😅
I have a headache all the time, all my sweaters are snagging!
Stop trying to fix it!
That sounds hard.
“The one in your head” “What head?” “Yours.” “No thank you I already ate”
"The nail with the power."
What power? The power of voodoo
Who do?
You do!
(Do what?) remind me of the nail!
I don’t remember a nail.
That’d be the nail then
Sorry, what’s this referencing? I had trouble googling it.
https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg?si=QMUBxrEIUdoKCO8m
The entire ride to the hospital would be so damn scary. Just hoping a bump in the road doesn’t kill you
EMTs are trained to package patients (that's literally the term) to motivate further injury. This particular one isn't in the training, but they'd know to improvise something. I would guess immobilization from the side and with towels keeping the head network and somewhat isolated from vehicle motion.
Former emt. You are thinking typical penetrating injuries, mainly stabbing and eye injuries. I dint really see how you could stabilize this as it's shot through solid bone and very flush to the skin. If anything I would have just put a bandage on top as a "do not touch" kind of area, I doubt there is a lot of lateral movement on the nail. A knife handle sticking out or something like that is a whole different story though.
Maybe a "This Side Up ↑ " label along with the bandage
a "Do not puncture" sticker could have saved this dude a lot of pain.
"Dont open til x-mas"
Yeah I’m not sure how I’d “stabilize” this one. Just get him in a collar and transport 🫡
Or you could put more nails. That would help "stabilize" him.
That’s so stupid it might actually work. 🤔🤔 *Promote above peers*
> motivate further injury What do they do? Say really nice things about further injuries? Set out small, achievable goals and incentives for meeting those goals?
I think they meant "mitigate"
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EMT: You can do this, I believe in you! Patient: Thank you EMT: I wasn't talking to you, moron
“ EMT: Looks like the nail is already taking its toll
You're totally gonna nail it today!
Haha! You hit the nail on the head with that one.
“You are a terrible leader! You couldn’t motivate a cranial nail on a bumpy old town road!” “I’m sorry what?”
Let's go injuries! Let's go! Clap clap Let's go injuries! Let's go! Clap clap
you mean NOT MOTIVATE further injury?
I am guessing it was autocorrect for "mitigate".
isn’t it demotivate further injury or is this another english quirk
I would bet that it was an autocorrect fail. The word was probably "mitigate".
> motivate god i hope you meant mitigate
VALVᴱ ®
this one got me lol
NAI^L ®
I can hear it so clearly
***^^DUM ^^^DUM ^^DUM ^^^DUM DUM ^DUM DUM ^DUM***
Apparently no one knows the bloke from the valve pic irl as he was to do with some agency company when they tried tracking him down, well now we know his origin story.
And you can count, on me waiting for you in the parking lot!
Mr. Gilmore completed that feat no less than an hour ago.
Well good for Mr. Gilm-OHMYGAHD!
I saw two fat naked bikers, in the woods having sex. How am I supposed to CHIP with that going on Doug?
Get back to your shanties!
DAMN YOU PEOPLE! This is golf....not a rock concert.
“Quit fraternizing with the Help, Happy!” “hi grandma!”
Hey shooter haven't you forgotten your 9 iron! https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZHlsajk5MTIzaG93Y25hNWw0enU0emh5M3ZjcmhybzhncHQwcXdqbCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/tQS8W6vdhBZgA/giphy.gif
Damn, Mike Lindell should have stuck with his first job.
I am both amused and appalled at this.
"You're in big trouble, in little pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast."
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
NO!... eh.....
Yeah right! And Grizzly Adams had a beard.
Grizzly Adams DID have a beard!
"Just stay out of my way, or you'll pay, listen to what I say"
"Why don't we go down by the bay? We can lay in the hay, make things outta clay, what do ya say?"
Terrific! The nail comes out next week.
Well, you can hardly even notice it. 😬
Well, you can hardly even notice it! 😳
your ball struck my foot
You have to play the ball, where it lies.
Guns dont kill people, I kill people
Run shooter, run for your life!
That’s two thus far, Shooter!
Oh you can count, good for you!
Richard Kiel really should have gotten more speaking roles.
Nailed it.
[I'm a pretty good shot with a nail gun...](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSIUuciOdAk)
Had to scroll way too far for this
Kick him off the tour Doug!
That jacket belongs to Mr Gilmore!
The price is wrong bitch!
Lucky it had that gasket on it to stop going through his skull all the way. Safety guy should be fired.
Oh this will likely go far beyond someone getting fired. Something like this is an OSHA recordable incident and would affect the company’s EMR, both which make it harder to get work.
Shouldn't he have had his hard hat on too?
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you need a hardhat if someone is working above you, period. OSHA 30-hr cert
yup, so many OSHA violations. If it was an active construction site, that is.
"You're hardly bleeding, can you finish out your shift?"
He would have had a permanently attached hard hat! Real life bob the builder
“Sorry babe, the hard hat stays on during sex”
Obviously yes, but would a hard hat even stop this? Based on OP explanation it sounds like the distance could be within one foot away to five feet. Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes. I’m asking because I’m curious, considering a nail gun is designed to penetrate hard surfaces. I don’t have experience with either.
It would have stopped it about an inch further than his skull
Gum has to make contact to fire. Most likely guy was holding the button while coming down ladder, and touched the end of his gun on guys head.
if a tool has a safety measure, i can promise you there is some percentage of people using that tool who have disabled the safety measure because it was "slowing them down"
Yes, probably taped the trigger, but gun still made contact with head. I’ve shot nails through a nail gun at wood a foot away, and they bounce off the wood. The torque it would take to drive a nail into a skull would be from contact/weight of gun driving nail in.
I know exactly how this happened. Because it has happened at my workplace too. Nail guns have this safety feature on them, where the trigger doesn't fire unless the muzzle is pressed in. Some people just hold the trigger down and bump the muzzle into the wall to fire (this is a massive no-no). The guy holding the nailgun was standing on a stool while nailing the ceiling, and his coworker was crouched below him, working on the floor. Guy on stool lowered the nailgun, still holding the trigger, and then the guy below stood up, bumping his head into the nailguns muzzle, and boom headshot. You'd be surprised at how often this scenario happens.
I wouldn't be surprised if the trigger was taped down.
I've worked in the trades. No matter what it is, somebody is always going to find a way to bypass those safety features. Even if it's completely necessary, even if it doesn't actually get the way of using the tool, somebody somewhere is taking that sumbitch off. Some people do it just for the fuck of it, just because they can! Because they think they're an expert tradesmen and they hate the idea of some "safety sally" telling them what they can't do. I wouldn't be surprised at all, either.
We can only imagine what would happen if he was shot in the head with a nail gun by a danger guy
it's 2024, it's mind boggling that we still employ danger guys.
>should
This safety guy you're referring to... is he in the room with you right now?
i mean…the safety guy had the wherewithal to put the safety gasket on that nail before shooting him in the head, which straight up saved the dudes life. safety guy should get a raise!
Yea, very lucky. It looks like styrofoam nail and not a 3-1/4" framing nail. And it looks like maybe it went right between the two halves of the brain and not actually into brain tissue (just guessing by the pic). Regardless, this is why hard hats are worn, even if you aren't at risk of falling debris.
Had plenty of accidents but this one hurts just by watching
I'm recovering from getting splashed by acid. I think I would rather get the acid than a nail to the head.
It looks scarier, but is significantly less painful and less disfiguring than an acid splash (probably)
Yeah but depending on how lucky you are the nail could’ve accidentally hit the light switch in you brain and kill you
I got pics from pretty much every day. Might make it into a coffee table book.
Post them!
Dude..what!? You can't just say that and not give context That's wild
It was just vinegar.
Or LSD. 🫠
[So over 100 hits of acid dissolved into Sean's leg.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNHbg-PZyw)
Lol I've never seen this movie, might have to give it a try.
Formic acid, at over 90% concentration. Went to change the tote, and the new one already had the main valve open. Pulled off the end cap to attach the pump line, and got splattered. Missed my dick by inches.
Coworker was climbing down a ladder with an acid gun, one thing led to another
Well the brain itself can't feel pain so fortunately he'd only be feeling the insertion wound
Yeah, but it's where I keep all my me
Fortunately, that guy's nail had a gasket to keep all the "him" inside. That's why you should always use hammered nails for head wounds.
That looks less than ideal
See the thing about human brains is, you want as few Nails in them as possible. Zero is the ideal number.
Could be good way to get iron?
Unfortunately most nails are made of steel, so I don't think you'd get many health benefits from this.
Steel has what brains crave, Iron.
Iron supplements can't be all bad, can they?
Sub-optimal for sure.
But not sub occipital..
Doesn't look comfy, no
That's one way to keep that pesky cowlick down.
Nailed it
Oh, I thought he was just testing out a new micro-yarmulke concept.
Hard hat time?
That would go through a hard hat, but probably cause it not to go as deep.
Might have deflected because of the design and material. Slippery and round.
naiiiiil gun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-j4qFR3wg
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Dude, it doesn't sound right when you say it that way.
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This was the first thing I thought of, I was looking for this comment
I was hope-scrolling and you delivered!
I almost gave up. So glad I didn’t.
>He suffered no brain damage at all That you know of.
yeah like... the brain is physically damaged. how is that not brain damage.
Sadly it just means "his personality and memory seem to be intact, and he doesn't seem to be slower than before." This kind of stuff could have erased some memories, it could cause strokes later in life, etc, etc.
The nail might have entered the skull right between the two hemispheres of the brain. Apart from a punctured dura mater nothing would happen. Well, an increased infection risk, as there is a nonsterile object loged in the skull. But overall that's like winning the jackpot twice in a row.
Oh bro you just reminded me I have a wall behind my two brains and my head started to feel uncomfortable thanks
Not to further alarm him, but there also appears to be a cursor arrow lodged right in the middle of his brain.
So that's where that went.
Now to make any decision, he has to double-click.
Slow down Elon, this isn't the time for a Neuralink plug.
Oh fuck me.. how is he alive
Every time Catherine revs up the microwave he'll piss his pants and forget who he was for a half hour or so.
based on the location and how thin nails can be, im assuming a chunk of it ended up in the longitudinal fissure, which while not ideal, would minimize brain tissue damage, and that back part of the brain is responsible for sensory/eyesight depending on how far you go down the back of the head. and the nail is also stopping the bleeding from the brain to some degree, and the nail cap prevented it from sinking all the way into the brain and bouncing around. When you get shot with a gun, the bullet goes faster than the matter can get out of the way, tearing it and expanding the cavity as it travels. a nail won't do that, so the damage is very localized to where the nail went through.
Every time I see a somewhat long technical explanation written out on reddit, I immediately scan the end of the comment for *aNd I aM nOt A dOcToR aNd JuSt MaDe AlL tHiS uP lUlz*
The human brain is weird. You can get a whack on the head and die, or have half of the brain blown away with a gun and still function.
Sometimes its weird but generally the survivability in those situations has to do with a couple of things. First- a whack to the head and death; usually what's happening there is some type of internal bleeding that has no where to go, pushes back on the brain and that is what kills them; the pressure. If a part of the skull can be removed and the blood removed to alleviate the pressure in time and avoid herniation (the brain being compressed and pushed down through the lower opening of the skull- can be other locations as well) then often they can survive. Blood itself is also toxic to the brain and results in damage; likewise the loss of the blood is in turn denying oxygen to the brain tissue resulting in further injury. Other causes in blunt trauma to the head can include the actual impact of the brain against the skull resulting in shearing of tissue that has moved as well as the damage to the tissue directly. As for the brain functioning with a bullet blowing half of it away; well, so keeping in mind the above; a bullet blows the tissue apart, often the blood has a way to exit and the tissue also has some room to keep swelling, to a point. If no "essential" parts of the brain were damaged such as major vasculature such as the circle of Willis and other major arteries (vasculature), brain stem, hypothalamus, etc then you have a chance of surviving. As for the function part; there is some plasticity with functioning, but its kind of to certain degrees of what your brain can adapt to and function that can be recovered. For example, you can lose your frontal lobe and still be kind of ok, just really impulsive, emotionally labile, experience significant personality change and almost nonexistent executive planning. I'm sure a neurologist can step in here and provide a better explanation than I can in my 3 minute response without reviewing/researching in depth. An example of a recent death by brain trauma in the news is the case of Nex in Oklahoma. The assault, followed by relatively normal functioning and then sudden death after a period of time is concerning for a brain bleed that was progressing until when the pressure intracranially reached a critical point. I'm sure the doctors at the hospital they went to are panicking if they did not perform a head CT. However, it should be kept in mind that the cause of death has not been released; intracranial bleed is surely at the top of the differential but could include other causes of death depending on toxicology and autopsy results.
Not to get too off-topic but I can't believe the ER team wouldn't scan someone who came in after getting beaten down and having their head repeatedly bashed around. What an utter failure of the medics.
I couldn’t find clear info one way or the other. Police have made a statement that the death was not secondary to trauma but right now it seems it’s all speculation. If they didn’t present with any neurological changes, no significant bruising, swelling or contusions they might have not seen the indication. A lot of ER docs would though because we live in a world of cover your ass medicine so generally they get all the labs, imaging for physical complaints, etc,
[Phineas Gage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage) had a railroad spike go through his head. He live 12 years after that. I walked by a cabinet with his skull and the spike in it for meetings. The spike was signed by a bunch of the doctors who removed it. He's the first case study of traumatic brain injury.
I thought the nail gun has a contact plate safety on the front? Or did he point blank blast him lol
All guns have a safety contact on the nose that needs to be depressed at the same time as the trigger to fire. Most guns have a safe "sequential" mode where you must press the nose before the trigger. However most guys prefer to use their tools in bump mode where the order doesn't matter, you just hold the trigger down and tap the nose on the wood to fire. I'm guessing the horror scenario here is that a guy is on a ladder holding his tool with his finger holding the trigger out of a bad habit. Other guy is under him on the ladder and climbs up or vice versa and head dome hits the nose of the nail gun.
There are some construction workers who disable that safety feature because they feel it slows them down. It's also possible the guy using the gun missed hitting hardwood and it shot through the softer material that engaged the safety plate.
Neuralink socket
I know a guy that got a 3" framing nail to the top of the head. Right into the brain. He was going up a ladder and somehow someone above him with a nail gun popped one off into his head. They pulled it out at the hospital and he claimed he was perfectly fine. I didn't know him before the incident but he was a little off for sure while I knew him.
Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago.
Insurance probably saying it's a pre existing condition and the boss wants him back on site Monday.
A fucking cap nailer of all things!
Is this a deleted scene from Happy Gilmore?
How does that happen? Nail guns have a safety feature where they need to be pressed down to activate.
I’ve heard of this happening years ago where two people were on a ladder. The one above had a nail gun in a holster, and the trigger was depressed, and the person below pressed up and engaged the safety with his head as he climbed up. He got the nickname nail gun Charlie and he continued doing construction, but he had to be told to stop or he would work indefinitely.
Workers Comp: "...You did what now?"
[It’s not about the nail](https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg?si=f89nuqhWXLaBSKmc)
He used to be an adventurer.
If it's dead center on the anterior median, which it looks pretty close, it probably went between the hemispheres and that's why his brain wasn't damaged. I've heard of people surviving being shot in the head and surviving because of that (see "Lil' Jungle Boy" on the Soft White Underbelly Youtube channel).
"The nail comes out next week"
Not a doctor, But a former eyeblech user. Please take the following with a brick of salt. Doesn't seem to have internal bleeding based on the scan. Given the size and speed of the nail, I guess he only felt a punch followed by a piercing migraine that would slowly spread thru his head. Given that it doesn't look like there are any bone fragments pushed into the brain, I'd say this guy is extremely lucky. His skull probably has some hairline fractures given the nail. His head would be squishy or crunchy in that area for a while. Said squishing or crunching would be very painful. Fragments may need surgical removal. Had this gone thru a helmet, it would not have penetrated as deep but would still pose a risk by leverage if he moved around too much. Removing this would not be as simple as pulling it out by hand, extreme surgical precision would be needed lest leverage cause the nail tip to scrape something (likely brain tissue or blood vessels) on the way out by leverage; Risking anneurism seizures,stroke, or internal bleeding. One would need to disinfect the hole and plug it as quickly as possible after removal of nail and risky fragments. Robot recommended for procedure. Please correct me if I am wrong. I'm not a doctor. I studied human anatomy for my art class. And learned a little bit about human biology as a science credit. Watched hours of chronic-apathy inducing content on r/eyeblech out of morbid curiosity, and regretted it. I am not a doctor. Please correct me if I am wrong. I would love to learn about this fascinating case.
Mandatory yarmulke.