TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Fatal and nonfatal rip saw injuries
JO  - Journal of forensic sciences
A1  - Handlosová, Klára
A1  - Klabal, Ondřej
A1  - Dokoupil, Marek
A1  - Vojtek, Vladimír
A1  - Uvíra, Matěj
A1  - Handlos, Petr
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This paper deals with a fatal stab wound suffered by a 29-year-old man and nonfatal injuries of 35-year-old and 67-year-old saw operators. Rip saw is a machine that is specially designed for making a rip cut, a cut made parallel to the direction of the wood grain. Rip-saw-related injuries mostly occur when a person is struck by the cutting material, which usually involves splinters of irregular shape and diameter. When the splinter strikes the body diagonally, the injuries may include abrasions, lacerations, and cut wounds; in situations where the victim is struck directly, the most common injuries are oval- or star-shaped stab wounds with a varying width of abrasions around the wounds. Therefore, such injuries may come across as injuries produced by a knife-like instrument, which is an added difficulty in the interpretation of such injuries.<br><br>© 2019 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14256
ID  - ref1
ER  -