Guy Macon wrote:
>
> Lava Lamp Left on Stove Explodes, Kills Man
> Source: Reuters Wed Dec 1, 2004 09:12 AM ET
>
> SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Wa****ngton state man who placed a lava
> lamp on a hot stove died when the lamp exploded and a glass
> shard pierced his heart, police said on Tuesday.
>
> Phillip Quinn, 24, was found dead in his trailer home on
> Sunday night in Kent, about 15 miles south of Seattle.
>
> "There appeared to have been an explosion that was centered
> on the stove top. There were glass fragments all over,
> embedded in the walls," said Paul Petersen, a Kent police
> spokesman.
>
> A lava lamp features blobs of wax in liquid that rise and
> fall in a container when heated by a bulb at the base of the
> lamp.
>
> Quinn was probably standing in front of the lamp when it
> exploded, then stumbled into his bedroom and died, Petersen
> said, citing a medical examiner's re****t.
What sort of pressure relief do these lamps have? I'd have tought that
the mfg. would have already considered failure modes due to over wattage
lamps, etc.
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Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
****rf raed befre postng.
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