Posted on 05/25/2011 10:06:22 AM PDT by billorites
Air brakes line punctured his butt/thigh area and separated the muscle/integument layers as it inflated the space and then spread up into his torso and up to his neck. Whoa.
If he had been inflated in his gut (whether by accident or intent) he would be dead for sure, quickly. Air brake system pressure on a truck system is around 125 psi, so he would have pumped up in the gut and blown up (yuk) rapidly.
This is one weird event and one for the Emergency Med textbooks.
Have slipped between a truck rig and trailer— it’s greasy back there. What may have been happening was he was hooking up the air line from the truck to the trailer brake system, slipped and landed on the truck “spigot” and it turned on.
Horrible really.
My thought too, when I first read headline. Reminded of an event, on purpose with a dude inserting his.... into a water intake tube at a hotel pool... weirdos and usu. dumber n’ hell.
I heard of a guy dying when a co-worker stuck an air line up his butt.
Then there was the German zookeeper a few years ago who died when trying to, er, assist a constipated elephant. The animal let loose and the man drowned before anyone could pull him out.
So nice, it was posted twice...and nobody pinged you to either one.
Compressed air enema.
Reminds me of the time we caught a patient on the psych ward who was carrying an old style water-filled fire extinguisher.
When asked why he was taking it into the bathroom, he told us, "___ (another patient) needs an enema."
Sure enough, the other guy was in the bathroom, "waiting for his enema".
It’s possible that they did and I missed it - been busy IRL.
Oh, I see what you mean! Sorry - as I said, busy IRL and buried in pings.
It’s not that freakish of an accident - this is the second one today - Gosh!
Yup, it happened. At a truck tire repair facility. Dude was charged for manslaughter. PSI on a commercial repair air hose is extremely high (so you can “seat” a tire on a wheel round and inflate it rapidly).
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