{"id":8722,"date":"2017-06-23T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2017-06-24T08:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:09:06","slug":"fitness-blogger-dies-in-freak-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/fitness-blogger-dies-in-freak-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness blogger dies in freak accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>By GABRIELA SANTOS<\/p>\n<p>A French fitness blogger has died after a whipped cream dispenser malfunctioned and exploded. The canister lodged into her thorax and killed her.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Burger, 33, was a fitness and travel blogger on such social media sites Facebook and Instagram. She had amassed about 200,000 followers on the sites.<\/p>\n<p>Burger\u2019s family made posts for her followers on her social media sites.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: \u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness that we announce the death of Rebecca on Sunday 18 June 2017 following an accident in the home.\u201d It was signed \u201cher grieving family, friends and husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her family also took to social media to warn about the kitchen utensil, the dispenser. The canister exploded and pierced her chest, causing her to have a heart attack. She was taken to the hospital but died the next day. The local prosecutor is investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p>French consumer magazine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.60millions-mag.com\/2017\/06\/21\/l-explosion-d-un-siphon-chantilly-fait-un-mort-11215\"><em>60 Millions de Consommateurs<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>said it had warned readers about the gas capsules in cream dispensers for years after about 60 reports of exploding siphons causing injuries ranging from broken teeth, tinnitus, multiple fractures and, in one case, the loss of an eye. The problem affected more than a dozen models produced between 2009 and 2013, the magazine said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to a fault in its conception, the siphon\u2019s plastic cap appears much too fragile to withstand being put under pressure \u2026 as a result, the siphon could explode and injure the user and those around them,\u201d the magazine warned.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re seeing now in the news media is a response to this claim. These canisters should have all been recalled and clearly there was something forgotten in the process.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unfortunate that it took someone of international popularity to die for this to be brought forward but hopefully authorities can prevent anymore senseless deaths form occurring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By GABRIELA SANTOS A French fitness blogger has died after a whipped cream dispenser malfunctioned and exploded. The canister lodged into her thorax and killed her. Rebecca Burger, 33, was a fitness and travel blogger on such social media sites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/fitness-blogger-dies-in-freak-accident\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[55,35,25],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gabriela-santos","tag-health-communication","tag-international","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8730,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}