Fatal accident due to anti-personnel ARGES EM01 rifle grenade explosion

During the process of unsealing an old ammunition box in order to destroy it, a 42-year-old ammunition technician was fatally injured due to an anti-personnel ARGES EM01-type rifle grenade detonation. The explosion took place in the victim's hands, in point-blank range. This report aimed to sho...

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Autores principales: Pavlidis, Pavlos, Karakasi, Valeria, Birbilis, Theodossios A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27321291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjtee.2015.06.004
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description During the process of unsealing an old ammunition box in order to destroy it, a 42-year-old ammunition technician was fatally injured due to an anti-personnel ARGES EM01-type rifle grenade detonation. The explosion took place in the victim's hands, in point-blank range. This report aimed to show the anatomical position, the severity and the dispersion extent of the multiple injuries in the human body due to the detonation, and draw firm conclusions regarding the position of the human body and the circumstances prevailing at the moment of the explosion.
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spelling pubmed-49082282016-06-23 Fatal accident due to anti-personnel ARGES EM01 rifle grenade explosion Pavlidis, Pavlos Karakasi, Valeria Birbilis, Theodossios A. Chin J Traumatol Case Report During the process of unsealing an old ammunition box in order to destroy it, a 42-year-old ammunition technician was fatally injured due to an anti-personnel ARGES EM01-type rifle grenade detonation. The explosion took place in the victim's hands, in point-blank range. This report aimed to show the anatomical position, the severity and the dispersion extent of the multiple injuries in the human body due to the detonation, and draw firm conclusions regarding the position of the human body and the circumstances prevailing at the moment of the explosion. Elsevier 2016-06 2016-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4908228/ /pubmed/27321291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjtee.2015.06.004 Text en © 2016 Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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