"Surgeons remove firework from Minn. man’s chest" May 31, 2012
ST.
PAUL - A Minnesota man is in critical condition after surgeons removed
an unexploded firework from his chest after taking advice from the bomb
squad.
Anoka County Sheriff’s Detective Mike Lapham said that
31-year-old Nick Beheng was launching fireworks from a hand-held mortar
tube Saturday when one misfired. Lapham says the firework blew out of
the bottom of the tube, directly into the 31-year-old man’s chest.
Beheng
was rushed to St. Paul’s Regions Hospital, where surgeons summoned the
bomb squad to the operating room. Lapham says the doctors wanted advice
on minimizing the risk as they removed the explosive.
The bomb squad disposed of the firework.
Lapham
did not know the size or type of firework in the incident but warned
that operating fireworks should be left to the professionals.
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