Bore Obstruction--Close call

[Woodcock survey]

An elderly man i shot with was shooting a 12 ga. 1100 and on a double the first shell ''shot off'' and the plastic stuck about middle of the forend. The next blew the gun up injuring his left hand badly and peppering his face with shrapnel. Thankfully his glasses held. No part of the wood from the forearm was found. We gathered up the pieces and mounted them on a board in the skeet house as a teaching tool.
He lost part of one finger and had to have reconstructive surgery 3 times to regain some use of the hand.
The use of single barrel guns dropped to zero for a long while. I look at every case as i take it out of my guns to make sure the plastic is all there.