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Mar 6, 2008 1:31 pm US/Eastern

Construction Worker Shot In Head By Nail Gun

CHARLESTOWN (WBZ) ― A construction worker trying to outrace a meter maid ended up getting shot in the head by his own nail gun Thursday morning.

The unidentified man was working on an addition to a home on Chappie Street when he apparently saw a meter maid coming to ticket his car.

As he rushed down a ladder, his nail gun went off. A three inch nail was embedded in his head near one of his ears.

The 46-year-old man from Lowell was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment of what police say are "non-life threatening injuries."

The nail gun was not in his hand at the time of the accident. His co-workers don't know what caused it to misfire. 

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