A construction worker in China beat the odds—surviving after a 10-foot metal rod impaled his skull and brain, according to a report published Aug. 10 by the Daily Mail.
On July 28, the metal rod fell from a second-floor platform while 56-year-old Kang Jie was at a construction site in Gansu Province.
Kang was not wearing a safety helmet at the time, according to the article. A CT scan at a local Gansu hospital revealed that the metal rod had lodged itself eight inches inside his brain, according to the article.
Despite completely penetrating the right side of his skull and through his brain, an emergency medical team at Xihing Hospital in Xi’an, China, successfully removed the metal rod from Kang’s head after a three-hour procedure.
Read the Daily Mail’s entire story below:
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