A labourer is lucky to be alive after a blade from a machine flew off and became wedged his skull in a freak accident.
Shiv Murat Singh, from Ayodhya, India, was left with serious facial injuries while using an iron-cutting machine that malfunctioned mid use.
The 47-year-old had been at work using the equipment, when suddenly a large blade from the machine flew off before becoming lodged in his face.
Horror images of the incident show Singh with the 14in blade piece embedded into his forehead, one eye, down the side of his nose, and his chin.
He was rushed to the King George’s Medical University Trauma Centre in Uttar Pradesh, where he underwent a complex four-hour-long surgery to remove the metal blade from his face.
Following the surgery, the team of doctors are now working on restoring Singh’s eyesight after the blade slashed through the entire left side of his face.
Dr Sameer Mishra said: ‘The injury was complex due to the location of the metal shard which pierced both the nasal cavity and the eye socket.
‘The procedure required careful coordination to prevent further damage and stabilise the patient’.
Meanwhile, Singh’s family have praised the medical team for their prompt, life-saving actions.
It comes after a man walked into a hospital in China in 2020 with a cleaver stuck in his head after being assaulted during a fight.
Footage of the grisly scenes showed the unnamed patient covered in blood while the steel blade is stuck deep in his skull at an A&E department in Hubei province.
He miraculously survived and doctors said at the time the operation went successfully.
Another man in China was saved after seven-hours of surgery after a disc flew out of a metal cutter and sliced across his face in 2018.
The running blade cut from his lips and end up lodged about five centimetres deep in his forehead between his eyebrows, according to reports.
The man, surnamed Ma, was said to be cutting open a metal bucket to fix a sink in a pigsty.
The machine broke and a blade came off when he was cutting an iron bucket and the fan-shaped blade hit onto his face.
Over 10 surgeons joined forced to perform a seven-hour surgery on Ma but he eventually recovered in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
And in 2021, an Australian man had a shockingly close call with a power tool after a sharp piece broke off and cut through his protective face gear, stopping a breath away from his eye.
Matthew Peters was using a grinder — a tool that sharpens blades and tools — when half of the metal disc broke off and went flying right at his face.
Fortunately, Peters was wearing a face shield, which absorbed the blow — but the sharp-edged disc still cut right through the plastic, coming to a stop less than an inch from his eye.
