[CPEO-MEF] 40 mm shell injures Ventura (CA) teacher

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Exploding ammunition injures Ventura teacher

By John Scheibe
Ventura County Star (CA)
April 4, 2006

Part of a Ventura instructor's right hand was severed Monday afternoon 
after he struck an object on his classroom desk against an old 40 mm 
round of ammunition while teaching.

The accidental discharge also left Robert Colla with severe burns and 
minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, said Tom Weinell, a 
captain with the Ventura Fire Department.

...

Colla had found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago, Huston said. He 
used it as a paperweight and "obviously he didn't think the round was 
live," Huston said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ve/article/0,1375,VCS_251_4594189,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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