title: Death by bull-edger. An unusual homicide using a woodworking implement.
abstract: Impulsive killers often use whatever instrument is close at hand in the perpetration of their deed. We describe a homicidal death, first thought to be accidental, in a rural sawmill where the assailant manipulated a large board of wood into a machine known as a bull-edger (which cuts logs into rough boards) in such a fashion as to cause the death of his work partner. The physics of the events at the scene as well as the subsequent investigation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1072, USA.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014934:Wood