A Hearty Life

Boy Accidentally Stabs Self Through Heart

by Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD on June 6th, 2006

Four-year-old Brandon Clawson died in July when he tried to make himself a sandwich and ended up stabbing himself in the heart.

He climbed on a worktop, took a knife from a kitchen block and began to make a sandwich.

After laying out the bread, meat and salad cream he fell, with the knife puncturing his chest through his rib cage, passing into his heart and a lung.

This gives me the chills. Children are so unpredictable and accident-prone. I remember several years ago when a pre-teen was goofing around while doing homework and stabbed himself in the heart with a pencil. Luckily, his mom was a nurse and she kept him from pulling the pencil out before they could get to the hospital. If he had, he might have bled to death.

Poor little Brandon and his family.

Telegraph, June 6, 2006

Technorati Tags: heart, accidents, children, kids, brandon clawson, stabbing, disease, health

Share This

Related Stories

A Nail in the Heart
Father Accidentally Stabs Son in Heart
A Hearty Life in 2006
Celebrating One Year at A Hearty Life
Heparin in the middle of controversy again…from China

POSTED IN: Hearty News, Weird Heart Injuries