Bob Saget’s fractures possibly caused by fall on carpeted floor, new report says

ORLANDO — Fractures round Bob Saget’s eye sockets and bleeding round his mind had been probably attributable to the comic hitting “one thing arduous, lined by one thing mushy,” akin to a carpeted flooring, in response to a report launched Tuesday that gives extra particulars of the TV’s star’s demise.

Within the incident report launched by the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace in Orlando, a detective notes that Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany stated the fractures “would have shocked Mr. Saget,” and that he would have skilled dizziness. Had he been with individuals on the time, they’d have seen “confusion, steadiness, and/or slurred speech,” the report states. It doesn’t pinpoint a location for Saget’s fall.

The health worker concluded after the post-mortem in January that Saget died from an unintended blow to the pinnacle, probably from a backwards fall. Investigators referred to as to the posh lodge suite discovered no proof of battle, foul play or indicators that anybody else had been in Saget’s suite throughout his keep. A toxicology evaluation did not present any illicit medicine or toxins in Saget’s physique.

There have been no indicators of blood on the lodge mattress’s sheets or bedspread, in response to the report launched Tuesday.

An preliminary examination of Saget’s physique within the lodge suite confirmed that he had slight swelling and small bruises within the nook of his left eye. “There have been no different indications of any kind of trauma or damage,” the report states.

The 65-year-old entertainer was discovered by a lodge safety officer on his lodge mattress on the Ritz Carlton in Orlando on Jan. 9 after he had failed to take a look at of the lodge and his household had requested for a well-being examine.

A lodge upkeep employee needed to be referred to as to open the door to Saget’s suite because it had been latched from inside. Despite the fact that the door between Saget’s suite and the adjoining room was discovered to be unlocked, information on the digital locks on the lodge confirmed that nobody had been within the abutting room since Jan. 7, two days earlier than Saget’s physique was found, the report says.

Greatest recognized for his position as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full Home” and because the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Dwelling Movies,” Saget was married to Kelly Rizzo Saget and had three daughters from a earlier marriage.

Saget was on the street as a part of his “I Do not Do Detrimental Comedy Tour,” and stated simply earlier than his demise that he loved heat viewers receptions in Orlando and the Ponte Vedra Seaside resort space.

A decide in Florida on Monday agreed to make everlasting an order that prohibits the discharge of photographs, video or different information associated to the investigation into Saget’s demise. Saget’s household had filed a lawsuit in search of the order.