ARCS2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: List Of Industrial Disasters, Calcination, Taphonomy
30 Jul 2018
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Disasters: what is a disaster, mass fatality incident (mfi, disaster = a sudden great misfortune, or mishap, a calamity (oed) Large number of people die, large number of people are unharmed. Less wounded are treated first, more seriously wounded treated later to treat as many people in a short amount of time as possible: types of disasters, natural. Floods: 90% of deaths due to drowning. Fragmentation of body into small pieces is rare: bodies camouflaged by mud and silt, bodies found by helicopter search, field walking, cadaver dog searches. Hurricanes and tornadoes: 90% deaths from drowning, damage to bodies similar to flood damage, damage depends on amount of debris body has impacted with, cemetery washouts- complicates body identification. Skeletisation/decay and decomposition: embalming chemicals, embalming artefacts- jaw wire, trochar buttons, eye and mouth formers. Volcanic eruptions: causes of death: toxic gas poisoning, suffocation, heat stress, burning, bodies covered with layers of ash, charred bodies, crushed bodies from collapsed buildings.
