1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion-Mumbai
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Late B.R.K.M. Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur-Bastar
3Demonstrator, Department of Forensic Medicine, Late B.R.K.M. Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur-Bastar
4Practitioners, Bhandara
To report the correlation of force and extent of perforating injury to head.
This case was brought to mortuary of Late Baliram Kashyap Memorial Government Medical College, Jagdalpur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, for post-mortem examination, with history of injury by iron rod falling from a tree.
The extent of injury retrospectively explains the amount of force sufficient to cause perforating injury to head.
Force of 1.0625 kg m/s (N) per square cm on skull is sufficient to perforate the bone.
Head injury, perforating injury
