Most people prefer to just BUTTON up their shirt......

I went down to get it and then I had to go up one or two rungs. I had to reach round and bring the nail gun around the ladder. As I was doing that I sort of stepped down, so the nail gun was above me.

For some reason I just let it slip from my hand and it made contact with my chest. As it did I had my finger on the trigger and accidentally fired it.

If the nail gun had fallen another inch either way it would have missed me.

As it was, the nail hit one of my ribs and went sideways. It went through the front of my lung and out of the back and came to rest on the pericardium.

I knew that I'd been shot because I heard the bang. I looked down and there was a hole in my chest. There was no blood or anything; it was a sort of red hole.

My first thought was : "Well, this is it." I thought considering where it was, in my heart, and because it was a three-inch nail from a construction gun, a big nail, that would be it.