Vape pen explosion shatters 17-year-old boy's jaw: It looked 'like a close-range gunshot wound'

A Nevada teenager was hospitalized after his vape pen exploded in his mouth, leaving him with injuries consistent with 'a close-range gunshot wound.'

A Nevada teenager was hospitalized after his vape pen exploded in his mouth, leaving him with injuries consistent with "a close-range gunshot wound."

"Austin came in with his hand up to his mouth," Burton told NBC News."He was in shock and unable to speak." "I had no idea that a vape pen could cause this major of an injury because it takes some serious force to break your jaw," she remarked. Adams underwent multiple surgeries to fix his wounds, including having titanium plates placed in his jaw bone, and has since recovered.

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