A man who lived in a trailer in Kent, WA had a lava lamp that he decided to heat up on his stove (probably because the light-bulb heating element was busted, also probably because he salvaged it from somebody’s trash). So he put the sealed glass lamp - it’s actually a bottle, complete with bottle-cap lid that is normally covered by a metal topper - on the burner. After it exploded (an inevitable event) he was found dead by his parents with a large shard of glass in his chest.
Our Lava(TM) lamp is quite safe and still catching odd looking blue space creatures on our mantlepiece.
Via boingnet - also the original police report is here.