2. 1980
1981: Boris Sagal, a film director, died while shooting the TV
miniseries World War III when he walked into the tail rotor blade of
a helicopter and was decapitated.
1981: Kenji Urada, a Japanese factory worker, was killed by a
malfunctioning robot he was working on at a Kawasaki plant in
Japan. The robot's arm pushed him into a grinding machine, killing
him.
1982: David Grundman was killed near Lake
Pleasant, Arizona while shooting at cacti with his shotgun. After he
fired several shots at a 26 ft (8 m) tall Saguaro Cactus from
extremely close range, a 4 ft limb of the cactus detached and fell on
him, crushing him.
1988: Clarabelle Lansing, an Aloha Airlines Flight 243 flight
attendant, was sucked out of a Boeing 737 when a large section of
its fuselage tore off in mid flight.
3. 1990
1991: Carl Hulsey, 77, of Cherokee County, Georgia, was butted to
death by a pet goat he had been training to act as a "guard dog“.
1994: Jeremy Brenno, a 16 year-old golfer from Gloversville, New
York, was killed when he threw his club against a bench in a fit of
rage, breaking the shaft. Part of the shaft bounced back and pierced
his heart.
1998: Tom and Eileen Lonergan were presumed dead after being
stranded after scuba diving with a group of divers off
Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The group's boat
accidentally abandoned them after an incorrect head count taken by
the dive boat crew. Their bodies were never recovered.
1998 October: An entire visiting association football team playing
against Basanga was killed by lightning during a match in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Everyone on Basanga, the
home team, survived.
4. 2000s
2002: Brittanie Cecil, a 13-year-old American, was struck in the head
by a hockey puck shot by Espen Knutsen at an NHL hockey game
in Columbus, Ohio. She died two days later in the hospital.
2002: Richard Sumner, a British artist suffering from schizophrenia,
went into a remote section of Clocaenog Forest in Denbighshire, Wales,
handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys out of his reach. His
skeleton was discovered three years later.
2004: Phillip Quinn, a 24-year-old from Kent, Washington, was killed
while heating up a lava lamp on his kitchen stove. The lamp exploded
and a shard pierced his heart.
2005: Lee Seung Seop, a 28-year-old South Korean, collapsed of
fatigue and died after playing the videogame StarCraft online for almost
50 consecutive hours.
2009: Jonathan Campos, an American sailor charged with murder,
killed himself in his Camp Pendleton, San Diego, California, cell by
stuffing toilet paper into his mouth until he asphyxiated.
5. 2010s
2010: Vladimir Ladyzhensky, a competitor from Russia, died in
the World Sauna Championships in Finland after he had spent six
minutes in a sauna that had been heated up to 110 °C (230 °F).
2010: Robert Boardman, 63, was gored to death by a mountain
goat at Olympic National Park.
2011: Sheila Decoster, 62, died from asphyxiation after falling head
first into a recycling bin at her home in Toledo, Ohio.
