Man recovering after horrific accident
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A man who escaped death after a 1.5-meter steel bar pierced his body from groin to skull in east China’s Shandong Province is weak but conscious, doctors said yesterday.
The 46-year-old construction worker, surnamed Zhang, had undergone emergency surgery at Shandong University’s Qilu Hospital in Jinan, the provincial capital, on Tuesday.
Zhang had been working at a construction site when he fell from a height of 5 meters on to the steel bar.
Firefighters were able to cut the bar to allow him to be taken to hospital where an X-ray showed that it had only just missed his trachea, heart, carotid artery and liver.
“This was a very rare accident,” said Sang Xiguang, head of the emergency surgery department. Surgeons worked with firefighters to remove the bar from the man’s body in an operation that took more than seven hours.
At 1am on Wednesday, the man was wheeled out of the operating room and transferred to the intensive care unit.
“Luckily the bar barely touched his vital organs,” said Zhang Yuan, a doctor in the neurosurgery department. “The wound was so large, he might not have made it if he was in poor health. One wrong move, and the operation would have failed,” he said.
“Everyone was exhausted by the end of the seven hours,” Sang said.
The man is now stable, doctors said, but will remain under close observation for two weeks to look out for any sign of infection.
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