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KMID : 0357820080320020140
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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
2008 Volume.32 No. 2 p.140 ~ p.143
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A Self-inflicted Pneumatic Nail Gun Head Injury
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Kim Seong-Ho
Kim Tae-Gong
Seo In-Soo
Cho Jae-Hong
Choi Young-Shik
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Abstract
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A nail gun is a type of a tool used to drive nails into some kinds of hard materials. In this paper, an unusual case of intracranial penetrating nail gun injury is presented. The body of a badly charred man was found following a house fire. Autopsy revealed four intracranial nails in the occipital area. Also, tears of the stomach and diaphragm were found. Carbon monoxide saturation of a blood sample was a 5.2% and a small amount of soot was present in larynx and trachea. Subsequent investigation of the circumstance and autopsy findings strongly suggest that the deceased had shot himself in the head with a pneumatic nail gun and had died by self immolation.
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KEYWORD
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Craniocerebral injury, Autopsy, Nail gun, Suicide, Self-inflicted injury
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