Man Suffers Terrible Burns After Beach Accident. (See Photos)

Ian Stewart, 49, was out on the beach when he saw
what he thought was a colorful pebble. He put it in his
pocket but he shouldn't have, the rock was in fact
phosphorus, it exploded leaving him badly injured.
Moments after the white phosphorus exploded in his
back pocket, a mother and daughter who were passing
by managed to help get his burning jeans off.

He was able to call his wife, Judith, 44, who arrived on
the scene just as an ambulance took him away. Mr Stewart
spent three weeks in hospital and underwent several
skin grafts. Now recuperating at his home in Blyth,
Northumberland,

He said:
"I had been walking along the beach near the old wartime
bunker when I saw this nice stone, an orange, amber
colour, and thought it would be nice to take home to put
with other things I have collected on the beach. There
was nothing sinister about it, it looked nice and pretty.
All of a sudden it ignited and exploded. My jeans were on
fire, my legs were on fire. I tried to get my shoes off. I
tried to pull my jeans off and a woman walking past helped
as well. There is nothing left of my jeans."

Mr Stewart added:
"The whole back of my leg is burned and I had to
have a skin graft. The base of my back is also burnt and I
had to have a skin graft there as well."

The father of two is now warning people to be on their
guard if out at the beach.

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