Gents, I'm not really sure what point this is about. If someone or something hits you hard enough there to break the bone, you have been hit very hard indeed. That event can kill you. In practical terms, the cheekbone is massive, the brow is massive, and if someone has managed to break into that shark cage and break the orbital, you're in big trouble for a lot of reasons. It doesn't matter if your death is directly associated with the orbital break or not. The concussion you may get from the blow itself could be enough to kill you; the force to the back of your head if you fall down could be enough.
Meanwhile, the very fact that something between the fist and your brain is breaking and thereby absorbing shock could actually reduce the force reaching your brain case. But even so, it's often not enough, because people often die from these events. The knock-out "game" comes to mind.
Look here’s why you are wrong. The reason the orbital floor fractures is because the eye is liquid and nor compressible. Putting pressure on the eyeball with a fist can cause that paper thin bone to fracture . You don’t have to break through the cheek or brow ridge to do it. I’ve seen literally dozens of blow out fractures in my 30 years of ER practice, and very rarely are they associated with a significant concussion. One good punch to the eye can do it.
I’ve never heard of anyone dying from an orbital blowout. The blowout is ordinarily into the frontal or maxillary sinus space. Traumatic optic neuropathy is certainly a possibility whenever concussive forces become concentrated at the orbital apex and trap the optic nerve. But no one has ever died from a TON to my knowledge. I’m just asking for some evidence of someone ever dying from an orbital fracture because that claim was made here.