Man steamed to death in malfunctioning sauna

Dennis Antiporek left a note for his family saying he was going to the sauna but he never returned

According to CBS Miami hours later his daughter went to look for him.

She opened the door and said she saw a man whose skin was a dark colour. She didn't realise it was actually her light-skinned father of Polish and Russian descent until she noticed his clothing hanging up nearby, according to CBS Miami.

"I close my eyes and I just see his face charred," his wife of 49 years Ronnie Antiporek told the station. "And this sounds horrible, but there was skin on the floor and on the bench, and we shouldn't have had to see that."

A lawyer representing the Antiporek family, told the Daily News, "the timer on the sauna was broken and the coils in the machine malfunctioned, causing the temperatures to be much higher than normal." This may have caused the man to have a heart attack, preventing him from leaving the room.