A Boise construction worker has survived a nail through his heart.

Eric Davis, pierced by a 3-inch nail from a nail gun, was released from a Boise hospital Christmas Day.

The gun bounced off a ladder Tuesday at a construction job at the Tamarack Resort in Valley County, according to KIVI-TV (Channel 6). “My hand just slipped and hit the trigger,” Davis told the station.

“He could feel it move every time his heart would beat,” said his wife, Jennifer Cafferty-Davis.

No one had pulled out the nail, and that kept him from bleeding to death, Cafferty-Davis said. Davis was taken by ambulance to a McCall hospital, then flown to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. There, surgeons opened his chest cavity, his wife said.

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