Worker is lucky to be alive after blade from machine flies off and wedges in his skull in freak accident
A worker is lucky to be alive after a machine blade flew off and became lodged in his skull in a freak accident.
Shiv Murat Singh, from Ayodhya, India, suffered serious facial injuries when he used an iron cutting machine that broke down mid-use.
The 47-year-old was working using the equipment when suddenly a large blade flew away from the machine before hitting his face.
Horror footage of the incident shows Singh with the 14-inch blade piece embedded in his forehead, one eye, down the side of his nose and his chin.
He was rushed to King George’s Medical University Trauma Center in Uttar Pradesh, where he underwent a complex four-hour surgery to remove the metal blade from his face.
Post-surgery, the team of doctors are now working to restore Singh’s eyesight after the knife cut through the entire left side of his face.
Dr. Sameer Mishra said, “The injury was complex due to the location of the metal shard that pierced both the nasal cavity and the eye socket.
‘The procedure required careful coordination to prevent further damage and stabilize the patient.’
Shiv Murat Singh, from Ayodhya, India, suffered serious facial injuries while using an iron cutting machine that malfunctioned mid-use
X-rays taken before the worker’s surgery show the metal blade embedded in half of his face
Singh underwent a four-hour operation to remove the shard from his face
Post-surgery, the team of doctors are now working to restore Singh’s eyesight after the knife cut through the entire left side of his face.
Meanwhile, Singh’s family has praised the medical team for their quick, life-saving actions.
It comes after a man walked into a hospital in China in 2020 with a meat cleaver in his head after being attacked during a fight.
Footage of the gruesome scenes showed the unnamed patient covered in blood with the steel blade lodged deep in his skull at an emergency department in Hubei province.
He miraculously survived and doctors at the time said the operation was successful.
Another man in China was rescued after a seven-hour operation after a disk flew out of a metal cutter and cut his face in 2018.
The running blade cut out his lips and lodged about two inches deep in his forehead, between his eyebrows, according to reports.
The man, nicknamed Ma, would cut open a metal bucket to repair a sink in a pigsty.
The machine broke and a blade came loose when he was cutting an iron bucket and the fan-shaped blade landed on his face.
More than ten surgeons had to participate in a seven-hour operation on Ma, but he eventually recovered in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
And in 2021, an Australian man had a shocking encounter with a power tool after a sharp piece broke off and severed his protective facial gear, leaving his eye unable to catch his breath.
Matthew Peters was using a grinder – a tool that sharpens knives and tools – when half of the metal disc broke off and flew straight towards his face.
Fortunately, Peters was wearing a face shield that absorbed the impact, but the sharp-edged disc still sliced straight through the plastic and came to rest less than an inch from his eye.