Excavator operator has lucky escape as steel embeds in his forehead.
The young man, Kieran Dodge, was clearing rubble with an excavator when a bar snapped and drove into the cabin.
“I heard him yelling out ‘help me, help me’,” fellow worker Eric Reddacliff said. “We all thought he was joking and holding a piece of metal up to his head. When I got closer I realised he had a re-bar (reinforcement bar) stuck dead-centre in his forehead.”
Reddacliff said the young man was conscious and speaking during the wait for the ambulance. “He seemed ok,” he said. “I mean, he had a concerned look on his face but what do you expect. This is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen. Just a freak accident.”
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