A different form of trauma: Injury by a mole gun

Abstract

Although injuries caused by the home-made weapons known as mole guns, intended to protect fields against moles, are rare in Turkey they do still happen. They generally involve minor accidents and cause simple injuries to the hand. This case, of wounding to the left hand and fragmental fracture of the first metacarpal, caused while checking whether a mole gun had fired, is an example of an injury caused by such primitive, home-made weapons, particularly in rural areas.