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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Sheep shearing and sudden death |
Author: | Irandoust, S. Heath, K. Byard, R. |
Citation: | Journal of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine: an international journal of forensic and legal medicine, 2013; 20(8):944-946 |
Publisher: | Churchill Livingstone |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 1752-928X 1878-7487 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Shabnum Irandoust, Karen Heath, Roger W. Byard |
Abstract: | A 29-year-old sheep shearer collapsed after walking across a shearing shed floor, holding his hand over an incised wound to his neck. Attempted resuscitation was unsuccessful. At the death scene fine arterial blood spatter was noted and at autopsy a single incised wound to the neck was observed, the patterned edges of which corresponded to the teeth of the shears. Dissection revealed injury to the underlying jugular vein and the mid portion of the common carotid artery. Death was attributed to blood loss from an incised wound of the left side of the neck. This case demonstrates the rare event of an accidental death related to the actions of a sheep. Although a relatively small animal, review of the circumstances and interviews with those present revealed that sudden and unexpected movement of the sheep during shearing had caused the shearer to lose control of his electrical shears resulting in a lethal incised wound to the neck. The blood spatter pattern at the scene was supportive of both witness descriptions and the findings at autopsy. |
Keywords: | Sheep Shearing Incised wound Farm Accident |
Rights: | Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jflm.2013.06.015 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2013.06.015 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Pathology publications |
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