The ten skewers that were removed
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.
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The ten skewers that were removed
Rescuers left the pole inside and rushed him to hospital so surgeons could fish it out.
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So all those fishing trips that doctors take are really training?
I hate it when that happens.
All is well as the company is holding his position for his return...…..
And you think you had a rough day.
Did they call it Workplace Violence?
Ping.
Ping.
Kill Humans, Kill Humans, Beep, Beep, Beep.
A horrible accident to be sure, amazing that the worker survived. Robotics can injure or kill, like any machine with sufficient power from a hammer on up. I don’t know what the laws are in China but in the US there are very strict and detailed requirements for machine safeguarding that make it very unlikely anything like this could happen (which is why you never hear of it). It’s always possible to bypass safety mechanisms and I’ve seen the effects firsthand, but stories like this tend to whip up a technophobic fear factor that is unjustified and doesn’t square with reality.
I know the kids today are into body-piercing but this is ridiculous.
I hope they have the sense to mount and frame them, and give the guy something to hang on his wall.
Ya’ think this will Buff out PING!?
No, but it will ‘leave a mark’....................
How about the poor guy who got the "industrial colonoscopy"... and they mention that incident only as an aside!
Seen it.
Covered it.
Rectum?
Damn sure did...
Seen it.
Covered it..............got the tee shirt?...............
Accident? Some may think otherwise....
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