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The type of explosive that gets misused most commonly are those used in manufacturing and other commercial applications due to their easy accessibility to public. Improper handling and inattentive behavior toward the explosives can lead to disastrous circumstances. Here we report such a case in which a 30-year-old male took rocks of potassium sulphate (called Gandhak Potash in the local vernacular language) and struck them with a metallic pestle, which triggered an explosion. The distal phalanges of both hands were found traumatically amputated. Stippling effect due to unburnt powdered explosive substance were present over the head, face, chest, and anteromedial aspect of legs. He died within few hours after the blast. Different type of mechanical injuries and injuries to the internal organs can be sustained over the body due to effects of explosion as we\u2019ve seen in our case, that is, abrasion, contusion, lacerations, fractures, burn injury and such pattern of injury, and specific injuries sustained due to pressure effect like blast lung along with circumstantial evidence helps in deciding the manner of death.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/19253621231218028","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,1]],"date-time":"2024-04-01T01:23:21Z","timestamp":1711934601000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Gandhak Potash Blast: An Actual Sitting Over the Powder Keg\u2014A Case Report"],"prefix":"10.1177","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3978-2754","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rahul","family":"Kaushik","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7606-0646","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luv","family":"Sharma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jitender Kumar","family":"Jakhar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Piyush","family":"Jain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Priti","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-19253621231218028","unstructured":"The Explosives Act, 1884. 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