TROY, Mich. — A 5-year-old boy was killed Friday morning when a hyperbaric chamber he was inside exploded.
Police and firefighters responded to The Oxford Medical Center in Troy, Michigan for reports of a hyperbaric chamber explosion, according to CBS Detroit.
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When emergency responders arrived at the facility they found the boy dead inside the chamber.
The boy’s mother, who was near the chamber when it exploded, suffered injuries to her arms, CBS reported.
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No one else was injured.
Police did not say what the child was being treated for.
A hyperbaric chamber is an enclosed space that delivers pure oxygen to the body with higher than normal air pressure, according to the Mayo Clinic.
During the oxygen therapy in the chamber, air pressure is increased two to three times higher than normal air pressure.
The Oxford Center, which offers various integrative medical therapies, issued the following statement on the explosion:
“This is an exceptionally difficult day for all of us. As law enforcement officials have shared, at our location in Troy, Michigan this morning, a fire started inside of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. The child being treated in that chamber did not survive and the child’s mother was injured. The safety and wellbeing of the children we serve is our highest priority. Nothing like this has happened in our more than 15 years of providing this type of therapy. We do not know why or how this happened and will participate in all of the investigations that now need to take place.”
The medical facility is closed until further notice.
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