[SML] darwin award winner

[Dale Farmer]

If the thing was pointing straight up and the lift charge fired.  then c spine injury leading to total paralysis and death.  If he had suffered the injury while standing in the trauma room of a major hospital, and had a room full of medical staff ready to go, might have been survivable, but would have a respirator breathing for them for the rest of their life.  
Sketchy news media reports say it exploded on his head, and that he thought it was a dud.  So an alternate scenario is that the lift charge was a dud or a fizzle, and the shell then exploded in the tube while he was holding it on his head.  Which would add blast trauma and cardboard shrapnel, and burning Pyro stars Imbedded into his body.  Also not a survivable event.   
--Dale


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From: "Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft" <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Date: 07/06/2015  11:41  (GMT-05:00) 
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Subject: [SML] darwin award winner 



If you want further details, check the news cycle:
 
A man in Maine (?) died after placing a Fireworks mortar on his head.  I’m assuming it was open side up, so I am curious as to the cause of death.  Concussive force straight down onto his skull?
 
Andrew M. Riter
Assistant Technical Director / Head Lighting Technician
 
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
6265 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
 
604-822-2372
Andrew.riter at ubc.ca
 

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