00:00The Dispenser
00:01Rebecca Berger was a 33-year-old French fitness and lifestyle influencer
00:05with more than 120,000 Instagram followers,
00:09the kind of person whose whole brand was health and looking after yourself.
00:13In mid-June 2017, she was at home in eastern France
00:17using a pressurized whipped cream siphon,
00:20an ordinary kitchen gadget that uses a little gas cartridge
00:23to push cream through a nozzle.
00:25The thing exploded.
00:27A component sheared off under pressure and struck her in the chest,
00:31right around the heart,
00:32and she went into cardiac arrest almost immediately.
00:35She died in the hospital.
00:37Turns out French consumer watchdogs had warned for years about defective siphons.
00:42Fifteen brands had issued recalls,
00:44yet tens of thousands of bad units were still in homes.
00:48Berger's family posted a photo of the canister with a warning.
00:51Do not use this in your home.
00:53The Cutlery Tray
00:54A Canadian man, whose name was never released,
00:58had traveled to his mother's house to attend his father's funeral.
01:01While he was there, he did something kind and ordinary.
01:04He started cleaning her kitchen.
01:06The dishwasher door was standing open.
01:09At some point, he lost his balance and fell onto that open door.
01:12The Cutlery Tray held two sharp, pointed utensils,
01:16and when he came down on it, both of them pierced his body.
01:19According to the RCMP, that's what killed him.
01:23Two utensils and a dishwasher tray.
01:25The Mounties treated it as an accident.
01:27The aerosol can.
01:29Jonathan Capewell was a 16-year-old schoolboy from Oldham,
01:32near Manchester, England,
01:33and by every account, he was just obsessed with smelling good.
01:36He sprayed his whole body with deodorant at least twice a day in his bedroom.
01:40In 1998, Jonathan collapsed in that bedroom and went into cardiac arrest.
01:47The buildup of gas in his bloodstream effectively starved his body of oxygen
01:52and sent his heart into fatal chaos.
01:55The coroner found about 0.37 milligrams each of butane and propane per liter of blood,
02:01the propellant gases in aerosol cans.
02:03A level of 0.1 milligrams can be lethal,
02:06so he had roughly four times a fatal dose,
02:09built up over months of heavy use in a poorly ventilated room.
02:12Most people use a few quick sprays in a ventilated bathroom.
02:16Jonathan was effectively filling a small room with gas twice a day and breathing it in.
02:22The coroner ruled accidental death,
02:25believed to be the first UK death from accidental inhalation of deodorant fumes.
02:29The bonding glue.
02:30Atasha Graham was a 34-year-old British woman from Lee in southeast London,
02:35a self-described fun-loving clubber who'd worn hair extensions for over a decade.
02:40One night in May 2011,
02:42she went out to a central London club where her boyfriend was DJing,
02:46drank, danced, and came home perfectly fine.
02:50Early that morning, around 6 or 7 a.m.,
02:53she staggered into the hallway, collapsed, and stopped breathing.
02:57Her boyfriend tried CPR, paramedics took over,
03:00but she was pronounced dead at Lewisham Hospital.
03:02In a severe anaphylactic reaction,
03:04the airways can swell and blood pressure can crash in minutes,
03:08leading to sudden cardiac arrest.
03:11The post-mortem found no alcohol poisoning,
03:13no drugs,
03:15no organ disease,
03:16nothing.
03:17Pathologist Dr. Michael Heath concluded she died of a massive anaphylactic reaction
03:22and raised the bonding glue in her extensions,
03:25which often contains latex,
03:27as a possible trigger.
03:28The Flowers and Cherries.
03:30On the 21st of June, 2007,
03:33around 5.52 p.m.,
03:35Humberto Hernandez,
03:3724,
03:38was walking down a sidewalk in Oakland, California,
03:41with his wife.
03:42He'd just bought her cherries and flowers
03:43and was walking her to dinner,
03:45a few steps ahead of her.
03:47On the street beside them,
03:49a Ford Escape blew a tire.
03:51The driver lost control
03:52and swerved up onto the sidewalk,
03:54slamming into a roughly 200-pound fire hydrant.
03:57The water pressure underneath launched the hydrant into the air.
04:01A sheriff said it flew like a bullet.
04:03It struck Humberto in the back of the head,
04:05then ricocheted through a fence behind him.
04:08His wife saw it happen from only a few steps away.
04:10He was pronounced dead at the scene.
04:13An officer said if he'd been a foot to either side,
04:16it would have missed.
04:17The Beard.
04:18Hans Steininger was the burgomaster of Brano Am Inn,
04:22a town on the Austrian-German border,
04:24elected mayor six times
04:26and famous all over town for his beard,
04:28which ran about 4 to 4.5 feet long.
04:31He normally kept it carefully rolled up
04:34and tucked into a pocket so it wouldn't get underfoot.
04:37On the 28th of September, 1567,
04:40a large fire broke out in Brano,
04:42and Steininger rushed out to help manage the panic
04:45with his beard hanging loose.
04:47As he reached the top of a flight of stairs,
04:49he stepped on it, tripped,
04:51and tumbled down, breaking his neck.
04:54He died from the fall.
04:55After his death, the beard was cut off and preserved,
04:58and over 450 years later,
05:00it's still on display in the District Museum in Brano Am,
05:04the same beard that killed him,
05:06the hay bale.
05:07Michael Edwards, known as Mike Edwards,
05:09was a 62-year-old British cellist
05:12and an original member of Electric Light Orchestra.
05:15On the 3rd of September, 2010,
05:17around 12.30 p.m.,
05:19he was driving his van along a deserted road
05:21in Devon, England,
05:23an ordinary afternoon on a quiet country lane.
05:27In a field above that road,
05:28a 600-kilogram hay bale came loose
05:31and started rolling down the steep slope.
05:34It picked up speed
05:35and slammed into his van as he passed.
05:38The reporting says he was crushed and killed instantly.
05:41There was no chase,
05:42no crime,
05:43no one to charge,
05:44just an everyday farm object
05:46turned into a deadly weight by gravity
05:48and a steep hill
05:50at exactly the wrong moment.
05:52He'd helped shape one of the biggest sounds in rock,
05:55and a bale of hay took him out on an empty Devon road.
05:58The 3.
05:59Wood.
05:59Jeremy Breno was a 16-year-old golfer
06:02from Gloversville, New York,
06:03playing a round at Kingsborough Golf Club
06:05on Sunday, July 10, 1994.
06:08He was on the 6th hole
06:09when he hit a bad shot with his 3.
06:11Wood,
06:12the kind of frustrating swing
06:14every golfer knows.
06:15In a flash of anger,
06:17he slammed the club against a bench.
06:19The shaft snapped,
06:21and the broken end sprang straight back at him,
06:23driving into his chest.
06:25He collapsed almost immediately
06:26as the metal tip pierced his pulmonary vein,
06:29one of the major vessels near the heart.
06:32Fulton County Coroner Paul Decker
06:34said he bled to death.
06:35The Dresser.
06:36Joseph Dudek was a 2-year-old toddler
06:38from Buena Park, California,
06:40the son of Jolene and Craig.
06:42The family had bought an Ikea Malm
06:44three-drawer chest years earlier
06:46and carried it from Pennsylvania out west.
06:49On the 24th of May 2017,
06:52Joseph was playing alone in his bedroom
06:53while his dad was nearby.
06:55The Dresser wasn't anchored to the wall.
06:57When the little boy pulled or climbed on the drawers,
07:00the whole thing tipped forward and crushed him,
07:02and he suffocated under its weight.
07:04His father pulled it off and called 911,
07:07but Joseph couldn't be revived.
07:09Ikea had recalled tens of millions
07:11of these dressers in 2016,
07:13but the family says they never got the notice.
07:16In January 2020,
07:18Ikea agreed to pay $46 million,
07:21reported as the largest child wrongful death settlement
07:24in U.S. history at the time,
07:26the stove.
07:27According to a single secondary account,
07:29Aiden Bray was a 24-year-old man
07:31from Kent, Washington, living in a trailer.
07:34The story goes that he did something
07:36nobody should ever do with a lava lamp.
07:38He set it on the stove to warm it up faster.
07:41As it heated,
07:42the pressure inside reportedly built up fast,
07:45and once the liquid hit boiling point,
07:48the lamp exploded.
07:50Glass shards flew outward,
07:51and one of them pierced his heart.
07:54He was found dead in the trailer.
07:55The details here are thin, single source,
07:58with no police record or coroner finding
08:01to confirm any of it.
08:02The Coke machine.
08:03Kevin Mackle was a 21-year-old Canadian student
08:06from Etobicoke, Ontario,
08:08attending Bishop's University in Lenoxville, Quebec.
08:11In December 1998,
08:13around 4 a.m.,
08:15after drinking beer with friends following exams,
08:17he stopped at a vending machine
08:19in a residence stairwell,
08:20the day he was supposed to head home for Christmas.
08:23He tried to shake a drink loose,
08:26rocking the machine.
08:26It weighed about 420 kilograms,
08:30roughly 1,000 pounds,
08:32and it tipped over and pinned him underneath.
08:35He died of asphyxiation.
08:37His family sued Coca-Cola,
08:39the machine maker Vendo,
08:40the operator,
08:41and the university,
08:43alleging the model was known to tip when shaken.
08:45Coca-Cola pointed to its warning labels,
08:48which read that tipping or rocking
08:50may cause injury or death.
08:52The university removed 12 of its 30 machines afterward,
08:55the retort.
08:57On the 11th of October, 2012,
08:59around 5.30 a.m.,
09:02Jose Molina,
09:03a 62-year-old machine operator
09:05at the Bumblebee Foods Tuna Cannery
09:07in Santa Fe Springs, California,
09:09was loading carts into a 35-foot steam pressure cooker,
09:13the kind they used to sterilize tuna by the batch.
09:16He climbed inside to do some work.
09:18His supervisor came by,
09:20saw the pallet jack and carts out front,
09:22didn't see Jose,
09:23and figured he'd wandered off.
09:25So a co-worker loaded the retort
09:27with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna
09:29without looking inside,
09:30another sealed the door,
09:32and the steam went on.
09:34Nobody knew he was in there.
09:35For about two hours,
09:37the cooker ran at roughly 270 degrees Fahrenheit.
09:41When they finally opened it,
09:43Jose's charred remains were near the outlet door.
09:46In 2016,
09:48Bumblebee's settled the criminal case
09:50for $6 million,
09:51the largest payout
09:52for a California workplace violation death at the time.
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