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Compressed Air Makes Trucker A Human Balloon
New Zealand Man Falls Onto Air Hose, Forcing Air Into His Body
A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch, The Associated Press reported.
Steven McCormack was standing on his truck's foot plate Saturday when he slipped and fell, breaking a compressed air hose off an air reservoir that powered the truck's brakes.
He fell hard onto the brass fitting, which pierced his left buttock and started pumping air into his body, according to the AP.
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"I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot," he told local media from his hospital bed in the town of Whakatane, on North Island's east coast.
"I was blowing up like a football," he said. "I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon."
McCormack, 48, was rushed to the hospital with terrible swelling and fluid in one lung. Doctors said the air had separated fat from muscle in his body, but had not entered his bloodstream, according to the AP.
McCormack said his skin felt "like a pork roast" -- crackling on the outside but soft underneath...
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