This reminds me of an incident when I was active duty EOD.
In mid 80’s my EOD team responded to a munitions accident with a base ejecting artillery shell that used ADAM’s mines, very small wedge shaped sub munitions that eject over a battlefield from a arty round.
The projo doesn’t explode it fires a proximity fuze and spews the little sub-munitions all over the ground.
Anyway the round went off in a test facility , and killed two of the workers and a third was en-route to hospital in a Helicopter when we did a quick count of the sub-munitions it was determined that 3 were missing.
Helicopter was notified and met by 2 other members of our team on the hospital landing pad. One of my techs removed the sub munitions on the hospital landing pad with the aid of 2 former USAF surgeons. My troop said the Doc’s in Trauma baulked when the word went out an these two Veteran surgeons were in the hospital and went up to help. One of our techs worked with the 2 surgeons and a surgical nurse and took out those last 3 sub-munitions that had impaled into the workers body.
Amazing American Military Bump!!