His head hit the gearshift, throwing the truck into park.
'I'm going to die,' he said, then he started convulsing. Jim seemed to be doing okay until a half-mile into the drive, when he complained of severe neck pain. Instead of calling 911, Kirk and Jim jumped in Kirk's truck and sped to the nearest hospital. He saw a small hole to the left of Jim's sternum where the one-and-three-quarter inch-long nail had entered his heart. Kirk heard the nail gun fire and turned around to see Jim rip open his shirt. He lost his balance, and, as he tried to regain it, the nail gun in his hand hit Jim and discharged a nail into his chest.
They were standing on a scaffold, and Kirk was holding his nail gun, when Jim bent down to pick up a board and accidently bumped him from behind. On February 22, 1992, in El Cajon, Calfornia, friends and fellow construction workers Jim Robertson and Kirk Crossman were using a nail gun power tool to nail boards to a ceiling on a job site. It airs in syndication on Episode 250S: 911 Trunk Trapped Tot Nail Gun Heart. 250S Nail Gun Heart is the fourth story from the twenty-second episode of Season 4, which aired on Maon CBS.
