Adam Johnson honored with emotional memorial after ‘freak’ skate accident deathA California carpenter suffered a horrifying injury when a power tool fired a nail through his tongue and into his skull on a construction site – and he is now suing the manufacturer over the allegedly defective device.
The apprentice carpenter from San Francisco “went into shock” and was rushed to a Stanford clinic, where he underwent emergency surgery to remove the projectile, the lawsuit states. Kahae is suing the tool’s manufacturers, Georgia-based Hitachi Koki U.S.A. and Koki Holdings Co., which is based in Japan, accusing them of negligence.
“Defendants’ nailers possess defects that make them unreasonably dangerous for their intended use by consumers because of their propensity to jam and override the safety switch, causing two nails to fire at once; just as it did to Timothy,” the complaint states.