A man has been injured after impaling his bottom when he fell through decking at a construction site in Sydney. The worker is understood to have plummeted around 10ft at a site in Macquarie Park at around 11am yesterday, according to New South Wales Ambulance.
Thankfully his injuries were non-life threatening, and he was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital where he remains in stable condition. After the accident, paramedics raced to the scene, where they assisted with the extraction process after the man fell from an upper level through the decking. “It took a little while to get him down,” a spokesman for the ambulance service said.
When he was found at the site, the man was fully alert and conscious. It’s understood that the construction site was for the “La Vera” apartment project, which is being run by Urban Property Group.
SafeWork New South Wales – the workplace health and safety regulator – is currently investigating the incident.
A spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia: “SafeWork NSW has been notified of an incident that occurred just before 11am today at Macquarie Park involving the fall of a construction worker.
“SafeWork NSW is continuing its inquiries and no further comment is available at this time.”
In a near-identical case in 2018, a construction worker miraculously survived after being impaled on a rusty bar that shot through his bum and went into his chest.
The workman, who was not named, fell six feet onto the bar while grafting in Chenzhou, China.
Coworkers said the 64-year-old was working on a platform when he lost his footing before plummeting on to a 31.5-inch “rebar”, which is used to reinforce concrete. He was rushed to the First People’s Hospital for treatment.
The doctor overseeing the operation said around three quarters of the reinforced steel bar had gone inside his body through one of his buttocks and burrowed through to his chest cavity.
Initially, firefighters responding to the scene sheared off part of the metal. The same fire crew were asked to remain at the hospital to assist during the six-hour surgery.
In 2017, another construction worker was left with a grisly injury after a sevent foot iron rod became impaled in his skull. Amazingly Mohammad Guddu survived the horrifying wound, despite the metal pole going right through his head and brain.
Doctors saved the 24-year-old construction worker’s life by cutting open his skull bone to pull out the rod during five-hour long surgery. Shocking x-rays show the rod totally embedded through his head. Mr Guddu was mixing cement in Mumbai, in western India, when a the police accidentally fell from the fourth floor, piercing through the top of his head.
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