Posted on 12/13/2018 7:42:34 AM PST by Red Badger
The 49-year-old was on the night shift at a porcelain factory in China when the accident happened
A CHINESE factory worker has survived being skewered with TEN metal spikes when a machine malfunctioned.
The 49-year-old, named as Mr Zhou, was working on the night shift at a porcelain factory in Hunan province when he was struck by a falling mechanical arm.
The accident resulted in him being impaled with foot long, half-inch thick metal rods, the People’s Daily reported.
He was first taken to a local hospital before he was transferred to the Xiangya Hospital of Central South University due to the severity of his injuries.
Six steel rods fixed on a steel plate pierced his right shoulder and chest, and four penetrated elsewhere in his body.
During the operation, doctors found that one of the rods missed an artery by just 0.1mm.
The rods also prevented doctors from carrying out X-rays before the operation.
“They were relatively big so there was no means of getting fitting the patient into the X-ray machine while the nails themselves could have caused interference with X-rays," said Wu Panfeng, an associate professor of hand microsurgery.
Surgeons worked through the night to take out all of the rods in Mr Zhou's body.
His condition is now described as stable and he will undergo treatment and physiotherapy to assist his recovery, and he is already able to move his right arm.
Last year, a construction worker miraculously survived after he was electrocuted, thrown from his workstation and then impaled through the anus by a four-foot steel bar.
Yang Ming, 37, had accidentally touched live wires on a building site and the shock sent him flying backwards onto the protruding metal rod.
Rescuers left the pole inside and rushed him to hospital so surgeons could fish it out.
Ming had to undergo seven hours of surgery at the Sichuan University West China Hospital in Chengdu, capital of China’s south-western Sichuan Province.
Looks like Quality Control
needs a little Tune Up.
Once you've been impaled, I'm not sure length is as much of a concern as diameter.
His new nickname:
Shish Kabob....................
Skynet is now active.
Check the label—prolly, Made In China!
What makes the authorities think this was an accident??
“Dang, that was lucky. Dog-gone near lost a $400 hand cart.”
Why? is Sum Ting Wong?........................
Funny... I looked away for second after scanning the FR page and for a moment I thought the headline was referring to the meeting that Schumer and Pelosi had with POTUS the other day....
Yikes! A real human pin cushion.....
This company didn’t go by the name “Sky Net’’, did it?
i hate it when that happens
Oops!
then awwww sh!t...
heh heh heh heh
One of my very favorite retro tv series! NOBODY was hotter than Mrs. Peel.
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