A 49-year-old Chinese resident named Zhou works in a porcelain factory in Zhuzhou County, Hunan Province.
Last Tuesday, on the night shift, one of the automatic mechanisms suddenly broke down on Zhou, and a robotic arm with ten sharp steel "stakes" fell from above.
Each of these stakes pierced Joush through, piercing through the torso, arm, and tangentially touching one leg. However, by some miracle, none of the vital internal organs was seriously injured and the man survived.
When he was taken to the hospital, he was still conscious.
Each of the stakes was 30cm long, four of them pierced the right arm, one pierced the right shoulder, one pierced the chest, and four more pierced the left arm.
According to the surgeon Wu Pang Feng, due to the fact that the stakes were metal, it was impossible to take an X-ray of the victim, so the doctors had to do everything "blindly."
The worst was the stake stuck in the chest. It turned out that he passed literally a couple of millimeters from the nerve node and a large blood vessel. A small flaw in the work and the patient, who was already in critical condition, would immediately die on the operating table.
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The operation involved 10 doctors and nurses. While some were busy removing stakes, others were treating wounds. The operation took the rest of the night and continued the next day with the assistance of a cardiac surgeon and a specialist in hand microsurgery.
The victim is now in a stable condition.