Iron County Record | 1946-12-26 | Page 2 | Oyster Blast Tops Freak Mishaps

Oyster Blast Tops Freak Mishaps WASHINGTON Home accidents took a new turn here when an oyster exploded. The housewife, who was cooking the oyster In deep fat, suffered suf-fered second degree burns on the hands and f.ice In the freak accident, a Red Cross survey reveals. In another unusual mishap, a man suffered throat Injuries when he fell with a pipe in his mouth. Doctors removed a small hatpin from the lung of a 3-year-old boy, another child swallowed a pencil clip and a S-months-old baby suffered a fric- tured skull when Its carriage rolled off a porch. The superstitlously inclined claimed new impetus for their beliefs be-liefs after a hammer, hanging on the rung of a ladder, fell and struck a man on the head. In another home accident, a woman wom-an was burned when she poured melted fat Into a furnace. Statistics compiled by the Red Cross home accident survey show an Increase In accidents and deaths this year over 1945.