Man Survives Being Pulled Through Tiny Gap

A factory worker says he is lucky to be alive after being dragged through a 5in gap in machinery that left him with serious injuries.

Matthew Lowe, 25, had his back broken in two places, his pelvis shattered, both hips and several ribs fractured and his stomach and bowel ruptured. He was rushed to hospital where surgeons initially stabilised him and later operated.
In all, he spent a month in hospital and had to have six operations to pin his broken limbs back together again.

Mr Lowe, who was working at Compass Engineering's factory at Barugh near Barnsley - the firm he had joined as a school leaver - is now back at work at the company and training to be a site supervisor.
The company is due before magistrates in Barnsley to answer allegations over health and safety.

Lucky to be alive i say.

reply to post by Alpal
Interesting story.

Both links give me a 404 though.

You got some broken links friend.

Pulled through a 5 inch gap? How is that even possible? By the way, your links are broken.
Nice post.

Sorry My bad.

Link to the story with pictures ( non graphic )

Story

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Wow, I wonder how his head went through?

Nice X-ray.

Now I don't know if it is just me or not, but pulling up that link the guys body looks like it is a little wider that 5 inches??!!!

Originally posted by butcherguy
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Wow, I wonder how his head went through?

Nice X-ray.

Yeah, I'd think his brain would've been pulverized.
People do survive some amazing things though, but this is nothing short of a miracle.

Is this a birth annoncement?
Cuz i survived that squeeze too.
Was a bit cold out after though.

Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by Alpal

 

Wow, I wonder how his head went through?

Nice X-ray.

Seen this in other UK media today - and in answer to your query it appears that he was even more lucky than indicated in this thread so far........ his head was pulled through a larger opening above the machine - had a gap that meant his head wasn't separated from his body!

Sometimes amazes me just how resilient we can be as a species, particularly when i think about how much i hop about and curse whenever i stub my toes!!

Did anyone see the interview with the old Japanese lady that survived Hiroshima (or Nagasaki, can't remember which)? She lives near the Fukushima plant and local tv crews were asking her about fleeing current radiation levels. She basically laughed and said they were wimps, saying she was 3.2km from epicentre of the atomic bomb blast and has lived a full and healthy life so why would she bother fleeing comparatively minute amounts of radiation (her take on it, not mine)

Dohhh!! Not the visual I needed this morning! Glad the guy is recovering nicely, but does this give anyone else a serious case of the heebie jeebies?!?

Basically, like being born again,
we could surmise.