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Mohit Chauhan1, Chittaranjan Behera1, P C Dikshit1
1Department of Forensic Medicine, MAMC & Associated Hospitals, New Delhi 110002, India.
The Medico-Legal Journal
|January 11, 2017
Abstract:
Assorted projectiles including shrapnel, sling shots, stones, metal and rock fragments and other missiles cause fatal penetrating skull injuries. In this case, a 34-year-old foreman suffered a fatal penetrating orbito-cerebral injury while lubricating a hydraulic rock-splitting machine with industrial grease viscous.
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