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El Reg reports
A forensics report has reported the first known death from the use of electronic cigarettes after a Florida man was killed when his device exploded and drove itself into his cranium.
Tallmadge D'Elia was vaping at home on May 5 when the vaping device, manufactured by Philippines-based Smok-E Mountain, exploded. An investigation by the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner's office found the explosion fired two pieces of the vaping device into his head, causing death by "projectile wound of head".
D'Elia also suffered burns to 80 per cent of his body, the ABC News reports,[1] after the explosion caused a fire in his house. Firefighters found his lifeless body when they broke in to tackle the blaze.
A representative from Smok-E Mountain said that the problem was most likely a battery issue, or a problem with the atomizer D'Elia had in his mouth. It said the company had had problems with people cloning their devices and using bad batteries.
While D'Elia's death is a first, injuries from electronic cigarettes are surprisingly common. A report last year by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency found that between January 2009 and December 31, 2016 there were 195 incidents where vape pens overheated or exploded, leading to 133 acute injuries to users, 38 or which were described as "severe".
[1] Astounding use of whitespace in the page's source code.
Additional local coverage from Tampa Bay Times:
Autopsy: Vape pen explosion fatally wounded St. Petersburg man and St. Pete man is first U.S. vaping death. Are e-cigarettes safe?.
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 17 2018, @06:28PM (1 child)
I say we live in the Age of Computer. And it's so true.
They say that a computer chip could have saved the guy's life. That so many of the eCigarettes have computer chips to keep them exploding. But this one didn't and it exploded. And the guy died and his house burned down.
And Google is doing a terrific thing, they're making cyber that decides who to kill. So our very brave drone pilots don't have to decide. They call it Project Maven. Big time saver and we can kill a lot more bad guys.
Fidel Castro, our CIA tried many times to kill him -- they call it regime change. And some people say they tried the exploding cigar. Some people say it's Fake News. But the Castro brothers hung on until I got very tough. No more Castros, because of me.
People are dying because of cyber. And they're living because of cyber. But nobody knows exactly what's going on!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @07:10PM
this is totally worth the upmod
it proves our realDonaldTrump really is watching the news!
he tied together so many things that make this country truly great, like cyber.