A popular French fitness model has died after being hit by an exploding whipped-cream dispenser. The horrifying accident occurred, when the pressurized canister Rebecca Burger was using at home blew up and collided with her chest, sending her into cardiac arrest. French media report that medics were able to get Burger’s heart beating again, but she was unconscious at the hospital and died the very next day, sadly.
For years, consumer groups have been warning that defective connectors in those devices can cause the nitrous-oxide chargers to break off and shoot out “like a rubber bullet.” Dispensers operate by piercing what are frankly very volatile capsules with pins to fill their canisters with gas — something that doesn’t sound very safe at all when it’s put in those terms. Projectile capsules have reportedly broken teeth and put out eyes, and a victim in France who suffered six broken ribs and a cracked sternum told the press in 2013: “I was told that if the shock and blast had been facing the heart, I would be dead now.”
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