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<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>--Dale</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft" <stagecraft@theatrical.net> <br>Date: 07/06/2015 11:41 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: 'Stagecraft Mailing List' <stagecraft@theatrical.net> <br>Cc: "Riter, Andrew" <andrew.riter@ubc.ca> <br>Subject: [SML] darwin award winner <br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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