I pray the following is untrue. I was told by a guy at the gym today that an American residing in Valencia was killed yesterday at his house while allegedly bench pressing weights and the weight came down on him. I hope it is misinformation. The same guy also told me a 23 yr old Danish guy was also killed yesterday. I pray that is not true as well.
Hopefully it's not true. If it is true, and he was bench pressing a large amount of free weight (not using a machine), he should have known better and should have been using a spotter, or at least a bench with some kind of built in safety, if there is such a thing.