Fatal and Nonfatal Rip Saw Injuries
Language English Country United States Media print-electronic
Document type Case Reports, Journal Article
Grant support
06/RVO-FNOs/2019
Ministerstvo Zdravotnictví Ceské Republiky
- Keywords
- accidental death, forensic pathology, homicide, rip saw, sharp force injuries, stab wounds, suicide,
- MeSH
- Wounds, Stab pathology MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Fibula diagnostic imaging injuries MeSH
- Tibial Fractures diagnostic imaging etiology MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed MeSH
- Thoracic Injuries pathology MeSH
- Hand Injuries etiology pathology MeSH
- Heart Injuries pathology MeSH
- Accidents, Occupational * MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Fractures, Comminuted diagnostic imaging etiology MeSH
- Check Tag
- Adult MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Male MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Case Reports MeSH
This paper deals with a fatal stab wound suffered by a 29-year-old man and nonfatal injuries of 35-year-old and 67-year-old saw operators. Rip saw is a machine that is specially designed for making a rip cut, a cut made parallel to the direction of the wood grain. Rip-saw-related injuries mostly occur when a person is struck by the cutting material, which usually involves splinters of irregular shape and diameter. When the splinter strikes the body diagonally, the injuries may include abrasions, lacerations, and cut wounds; in situations where the victim is struck directly, the most common injuries are oval- or star-shaped stab wounds with a varying width of abrasions around the wounds. Therefore, such injuries may come across as injuries produced by a knife-like instrument, which is an added difficulty in the interpretation of such injuries.
Department of Forensic Medicine University Hospital Ostrava CZ 708 52 Ostrava Czech Republic
Department of Radiology University Hospital Ostrava CZ 708 52 Ostrava Czech Republic
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