She said Brown had purchased a vape pen from Smoke and Vape DZ, but shop employees told CBS 11 News the man didn't purchase anything from the store. An ambulance was called after William was spotted in the parking lot, and he was transported to the John Peter Smith Hospital, where he died two days later.
As she sat in the house she shared with her grandson on Monday afternoon, Alice Brown cried thinking about his birthday in two weeks.
The Tarrant County medical examiner listed Brown's death as an accident caused by "penetrating trauma from exploding vaporizer pen" that dissected his left internal carotid artery. The study said there were likely more injuries that went unreported. He kept a close group of friends, and was working to fix up an old Mazda RX8, Alice Brown said.
A USA man has died after an electronic cigarette exploded in his face.
"When they x-rayed him, they found the stem, the metal embedded to where the blood flows up to the brain", Brown's grandmother, Alice Brown, told WFAA News. "That three-piece thing went into his throat and stayed there", she continued.
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He had asthma and had been told that there was a certain vape pen that could help with his symptoms.
Brown is believed to be the second person to die from a electronic cigarette explosion.
But he was never operated on, KTVT reported.
A spokeswoman for the JPS Health Network said she could not comment on specifics due to privacy laws, but said the company is continuing to communicate with Brown's family and expressed their honest condolences.
"He had a future ahead of him; a life ahead of him", she added.
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Malfunctioning e-cigarette batteries have caused hundreds to thousands of similar injuries, United States reports say. Of those cases, 133 people were injured, 38 of them severely.
Another report from the University of North Texas Health Science Center looked at U.S. emergency room data from 2015 to 2017 and found 2,035 e-cigarette related explosion and burn injuries - far more than previous reports.
A man has been killed just days shy of his 25th birthday after an e-cigarette exploded in his face.
The Food and Drug Administration haswarned about the dangers of exploding e-cigarettes.
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