Man vaping for the first time dies after the device explodes in his face and shrapnel severs a major artery
A man from Fort Worth, Texas, died in January after his vape pen exploded in his face, says a report from the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office. 24-year-old William Brown was at a vaporizer store in Keller when the incident took place. Alice Brown, his grandmother, said that he had just bought a vape pen and was testing it out for the first time in his car when it exploded. He died two days later at the John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) after he crawled from his car to the trunk area where he collapsed. Alice said that she believed her grandson was trying to get help and someone saw him and dialed 911.
The medical examiner has since ruled Brown's cause of death as penetrating trauma from an exploding vaporizer pen. According to the Daily Mail, the report said that his left carotid artery was severed. Alice then said that the doctors at JPS told her that Brown has suffered a stroke inside his car and then eventually had a bleed in his brain.