On June 17th, Brandon Frohbieter climbed about 12 feet up an autobelay route when he decided it looked fun and he wanted to try it. He jumped down and was impaled by a pvc pipe. I went up a little bit off the ground and it was pretty sweet so I was gonna hop down and actually go up the route. I looked down my right shoulder, and I just saw the ground, so I just kind of dropped from the wall.

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On June 17th, Brandon Frohbieter climbed about 12 feet up an autobelay route when he decided it looked fun and he wanted to try it. He jumped down and was impaled by a pvc pipe. I went up a little bit off the ground and it was pretty sweet so I was gonna hop down and actually go up the route.
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Massive penetrating trauma by rectal impalement is a very rare form of injury, complicated and potentially lethal. It is even rarer for such injury to result in pelvic, abdominal and thoracic internal damages. We report the case of a 62 year-old man who was admitted in emergency after an aggression with a sharp wooden stake inserted forcibly into his rectum. Clinical examination revealed the blunt extremity of the stake outside the anus and the prominent sharp end reaching his right supraclavicular fossa. Radiographic examination showed the stake extending from the rectum to the right side of the neck. Surgery disclosed penetration through the rectum, retroperitoneum,large bowel mesentery, liver, diaphragm, right lung and right 2nd rib.
Michael Moncure, Jared A. Konie, Adam B. Kretzer, Peter J.