Sydney worker impaled in head by steel rod
- 9 years ago
An Australian construction worker is lucky to be alive after an industrial accident left a 1 meter piece of steel bar embedded in his forehead.
The 19-year old was using an excavator, with the front of the cab open, to break up concrete blocks on a building site in Lindfield, Sydney when tragedy struck.
A piece of reinforcement steel from one of the blocks he was crushing suddenly shot up and embedded itself squarely in his forehead.
After responding to his calls for help shocked colleagues called emergency services.
Emergency workers then removed the controls and levers from the front of the excavator before extracting the man through the front window of the cab - all while as the conscious man held the steel rod in place.
He was taken to a local hospital with the rod embedded 6cm into his forehead where he is currently in a stable condition.
Australian work safety authorities have said they will launch an investigation into the incident, but it appears to have been a freak accident.
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The 19-year old was using an excavator, with the front of the cab open, to break up concrete blocks on a building site in Lindfield, Sydney when tragedy struck.
A piece of reinforcement steel from one of the blocks he was crushing suddenly shot up and embedded itself squarely in his forehead.
After responding to his calls for help shocked colleagues called emergency services.
Emergency workers then removed the controls and levers from the front of the excavator before extracting the man through the front window of the cab - all while as the conscious man held the steel rod in place.
He was taken to a local hospital with the rod embedded 6cm into his forehead where he is currently in a stable condition.
Australian work safety authorities have said they will launch an investigation into the incident, but it appears to have been a freak accident.
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