Darwin doesn't take the 4th off.

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. - A 30-year-old man has been killed after a piece of shrapnel from a bomb he made struck him in the chest, police say.

The man died less than an hour after setting off the pipe bomb around 7:30 p.m. Monday, Berkeley County Deputy Coroner Bill Salisbury said. His name has not been released.

The man filled a pipe with gunpowder and set up a battery charger to ignite the bomb as part of his Independence Day celebration, Goose Creek Police Cpl. J.S. Crafton said.

A woman standing several hundred yards away was struck in the wrist by a piece of shrapnel and taken to the hospital, Crafton said. No one else was injured.

It is illegal in South Carolina to make a homemade explosive or fireworks and others that were with the man before he set off the bomb could be charged if investigators find they helped him build the device, Crafton said.

If you are gonna do something to get a Darwin award, please keep it to yourself.