Office Chair Accident Cases
Most office chair accident cases involve injuries or even fatalities caused by the explosion of pneumatic lifting chairs. Here are specific cases:
On the evening of April 20, 2007, the chair Ms. Lou from Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province was sitting on exploded, piercing through the seat and sending numerous fragments up to ten centimeters deep into her body. In September of the same year, a lifting chair explosion occurred in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, resulting in extensive injuries to the victim's buttocks. On the evening of November 26, the pneumatic lifting chair that 68-year-old Mr. Wu from Yantai Development Zone was sitting on exploded, causing severe damage to his rectum and anal canal, as well as a ruptured small intestine. In January 2008, a man in Jiangsu Province had just stood up from his lifting chair when it suddenly exploded, injuring two friends who were standing nearby. On the evening of March 26, the computer chair in Mr. Lin's home in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province exploded, injuring him on his back and hands, and sending a small iron rod about 15 centimeters long flying up to the ceiling.
On January 14, 2009, a 14-year-old boy named Xiaogang in Jiaozhou, Shandong Province, was adjusting the height of his pneumatic chair when it suddenly exploded, driving a rod into his buttocks, puncturing his chest cavity with fragments, injuring his lungs, and causing respiratory failure. He died despite rescue efforts. That same year, another 14-year-old boy in Jiaozhou, Shandong Province, suffered severe injuries from an explosion of a swivel chair at home and ultimately died despite rescue efforts. On the evening of May 11, 2010, around 9:30 PM, a woman in a rented house in Dianqian, Huli District, Xiamen was injured by a suddenly burst lifting chair. The impact of the explosion of the lifting swivel chair sent parts of the chair into her body like bullets from her buttocks, with the pneumatic rod inserting into her anus. That same year, Ms. Liu was sitting and blow-drying her hair when her swivel chair suddenly exploded, knocking her unconscious instantly and causing severe injuries to her buttocks and abdomen.
In 2017, a netizen in Anhui Province posted about an explosion of a colleague's office chair, which separated the base from the seat, breaking into two pieces, with exploded parts scattered all over the floor. The outer tube wall of the gas spring was torn open, and the nearby computer host was also damaged by the blast. Additionally, in aๅๅญๆฅผ (office building) on Huaqiao Road in Nanjing, a rotating pneumatic office chair in a company suddenly exploded, injuring the female owner on her buttocks; 24-year-old Xiaolin was sitting on a lifting swivel chair blow-drying her hair when it exploded, sending a screw through her anus and out through the rectouterine pouch.
