Medical Must-See: Man survives accidentally shooting nail into his eye

The construction worker accidentally fired the nail gun into his left eye, penetrating the left orbital roof.

They say hindsight is 20/20 — perhaps a cruel maxim in the case of a construction worker who experienced a transorbital penetrating brain injury after shooting a nail gun into his eye.

The 30-year-old man presented to Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital in Alor Setar, Malaysia, with headache, loss of vision and bleeding from the left eye.