If you broke your rib, would, (with enough force) the bone be able to break the !
Question:
If you broke your rib, would, (with enough force) the bone be able to break the skin causing an open fracture?
If you were to be smashed into something hard from backwards, or something hit you and your ribs broke, would there be a chance, or would they be able to break through the skin and cause an open fracture with the ribs sticking out?
As all of the organs are kept WITHIN the ribcage, they wouldn't be damaged right?
Has this ever happened to anyon? Or does anyone know about this sort of injury please?
What would it feel like exactly?
By the way, this hasn't happened to me, but i am writing a novel and need peoples opinions please!
Answers:
A crushing chest injury does exactly that. Happens in car accidents [ behind the wheel with no airbags, mostly ], industrial accidents, earthquakes if a building collapses on you, etc.
All your organs can be damaged within the chest cavity - a broken rib is sharp, and depending on which rib and what angle it broke at, you could get a punctured and collapsed lung, punctured heart, or lacerated liver or spleen, or torn aorta - any of which could kill you.
Think Princess Diana.
1] it would hurt like hell if you were conscious, which wouldn't last long, because you wouldn't be able to breathe.
2] many to most people don't survive crushing chest injuries.