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In October, Duluth carpenter Lance Grangruth accidentally shot a nail from a nail gun an inch and a half into his skull, tacking his cap to his head. Said Grangruth, “I didn’t actually feel it go in. I tried to take my hat off, and it wouldn’t come off.”
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A 60-year-old woman on a life-support system died in Hammond, Indiana, in September when the local electric company mistakenly cut off the power to her home instead of that of her delinquent neighbor.
The New York Court of Appeals rejected an appeal in October from the family of a tennis umpire killed in a 1983 tournament. Richard Wertheim, 60, died when he collapsed in pain onto the hard court surface, fracturing his skull, after he had been hit in the groin by a ball hit by Stefan Edberg. The family had sued the U.S. Tennis Association for $2.2 million.
