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Question #145 (4/3/2026)
National Association of Medical Examiners
Educational Activities Committee
Submitted by Dr. Lorenzo Gitto (Assistant Medical Examiner and Research Director, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Chicago, IL), NAME EAC Committee Chair.
1.
An adult male is found unresponsive outdoors and pronounced dead at the scene. At external examination, among other injuries, the finding shown in the photo is documented on the upper extremity.
The injury pattern shown is most consistent with the body found where?
A. At the base of a metal fire escape staircase
B. On the ground at the edge of a two-lane roadway
C. Floating in a lake marina, near a motorboat
D. Lying on an exposed industrial metal heating grate
