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Bobby Leach, the second person to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, passed away a few years later after slipping on an orange peel and sustaining an injury to his leg that eventually became Gangrenous. His leg was amputated, but he still succumbed to the complications two months later.

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Bobby Leach, the second person to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, passed away a few years later after slipping on an orange peel and sustaining an injury to his leg that eventually became Gangrenous. His leg was amputated, but he still succumbed to the complications two months later.

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