In 1981, a worker accidentally fell into a brick-making machine in Boulder, Colorado. The fall was unnoticed by other workers, and the machine mixed the man's body into a batch of bricks that were being processed.
The bricks from that batch were later buried at a local cemetary.
During the New York City blackout of November 9, 1965, several people died of heart attacks that were probably related to the situation.
Only one person is believed to have died due to an accident directly related to the blackout.
A tourist from Florida - attempting to find a way out of his hotel - walked into an open elevator shaft and fell to his death.
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the U.S., died in 1826 from diarrhea.
James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the U.S., died in 1849 from the same cause.
In less than thirteen years, from 1348 to 1361, the bubonic plague may have cut the During World War I, influenza killed more soldiers than all the weapons combined.
A famous surgeon from nineteenth century England named Liston set a record by amputating the leg of a patient in less than two-and-a half minutes.
More than 16,000 people die from falls every year in the U.S.
On April 18, 1984 an elephant named Ellie was electrocuted while in the process of erecting a In 1919, a huge holding tank containing more than two million gallons of molasses burst open and sent a sea of sticky substance through a large area of Boston, Massachusetts, hitting buildings and people with a wall of molasses twenty- to thirty- feet high.
One thousand fisherman drown every year in the U.S.
In 1970, fifty-two injured passengers from a train accident in Nigeria were killed when the truck carrying them to a hospital crashed.
William Hall, an Englishman, killed himself in 1971 by boring eight holes into his head with an electric drill.
Unfortunately the spectacle was too much for another doctor who was observing; he died from a stroke.
The patient also died later from gangrene - as did a surgical assistant whose fingers were mistakenly amputated in the same operation.
Twenty-one people died in the Great Boston Molasses Flood.
Lightning kills about one person a year while he or she is talking on the phone.
At a baseball game in Florida on July 31, 1949 a lightning bolt hit the infield cutting a ditch twenty feet long, killing the shortstop, first baseman, second baseman, and injuring thirty spectators.
In the 1970s, in one 33-year period, 400 churches were struck by lightning in Europe, and 100 bellringers were killed.
On April 22, 1932, a bolt of lightning in Elgin, Manitoba, hit a flock of wild geese, killing 52 of the birds and providing dinner for many Elgin households.
On July 17, 1974, a lightning bolt in Oquawka, Illinois, killed a circus elephant while it was chained to a tree.
The survival rate for lightning strikes is only 50%, making lightning the most fatal force in nature.
