An unnamed resident of Hawaii is the first person to be seriously hurt by Mount Kilauea ’s volcanic eruption . He was sat on the balcony of his house when a lava spatter hit his ramification , causing it to shatter .

Lava spatters are made up of projectile molten rock and can weigh as much as a icebox , so they can   do some fairly serious harm .

“ Even modest pieces of spatter can kill , ”   sound out a spokeswoman for the county city manager , Reuters reports .

" It hit him on the shin and shatter everything there down on his leg , " she explained .

The injured humankind was on a third - floor balcony on Noni Farms Road in Pahoa .

Hawaii ’s Kilauea volcano began erupting in early May and is still work havoc as lavaflows through the streets , squander carsand destroying the great unwashed ’s homes . About 2,000 resident have been tell to evacuate by officials while many others have pick out to provide . Still , many multitude have decided to persist .

But thing escalated on Saturday , as molten tilt emerging from the ground threatened to block escape cock routes , meaning that more multitude may have to evacuate as road – specially important main road – become thin off . Highway 137 , which act as an leakage route for coastal occupier , has now been cut off . official are attempt to free a road that was cut off by lava in 2014 to provide an alternate way to leave behind .

So far lava from the volcano has destroy over 40 homes and building , and geologists are disquieted that magma – lava that has n’t yet reached the control surface – carry underground could get hold of area up to 40 kilometer ( 25 miles ) due east of the volcano itself , induce further destruction .

This lava would likely be hotter and more viscous than what has already flowed across Hawaii ’s Big Island , and lava fountains could stick out as high as 180 meters ( 600 foot ) into the air . The lava has alsomade its way into the sea , induce plumes of hydrochloric acid , steam , and fine glass particles to erupt into the air , a phenomenon late describe as"laze " – lava fog .

" Summit magma has arrived , " US Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovalltold reporter .

" There is much more stuff coming out of the ground and it ’s going to grow flows that will move much further off . "

It ’s still indecipherable when the vent will calm down , but hopefully the first injury as a result of the eruption will also be the last .