7 Fatal injuries that people survived
number seven in June 2006 thirty eight-year-old truman Duncan from
Cleburne Texas was working at his job on the railway he was in a process of
connecting two rail cars when he slipped and ended up falling under the wheels of
a moving rail car which effectively cut him in half he lost part of his pelvis
his left leg kidney any right leg from below before I where most people would
have just passed out during his horrific accident he managed to hang onto the
train until it came to a stop and then ring 911 on his cell phone to alert the
emergency services
ll it took them a further over 45 minutes to arrive and remove him
from under the train during which time he remained conscious and even rang his
family was waiting to be rescued during this time the father of three said that
he never thought he was going to die at the hospital surgeons spent three and a
half hour saving his life and removing dirt and debris from his wounds he went
on to have a further 23 operations over a four-month period before being
released from hospital he went on to make a remarkable recovery and although
his wheelchair bound he returned to a desk job with the same Railway Company
work for when he had a accident. Number six
being a British soldier in is a dangerous occupation at the best times
but for combat medic Lance Corporal Dean Bousfield the 2nd of July 2010
would become a life-changing day he was three months into a tour of duty when
out on a routine patrol he was shot in the head by a the bullet went
straight through his helmet and pass right through his brain before exiting
his skull above the right ear and lodging in helmet on the opposite side
which it entered he was evacuated by helicopter to
before being transferred to an American Hospital where he was operated on by an
american neurosurgeon in 99.9% of cases where this sort of trauma to the brain
the outcome is invariably fatal but for Dean Bousfield he survived but was not
expected to live with sent back to England to died surrounded by his family
however he didn't die and his recovery has astounded doctors the bullet
destroyed a large part of his brain including the speech cortex doctors
believed he would he would neither move nor talk but he's gone on to do both. Talking
afterwards dean said all he could remember was firing his rifle and then
waking up for weeks later in hospital although he suffered some paralysis he
has gone on to take part in a host of
grueling physical challenges including the ride in
2014 where he hand pedaled 335 miles from Brussels in
Belgium to Paris in France and in the same year he also won a bronze medal for
seated shot put at the Invictus games for wounded service personnel number five
getting shot by one bullet can be fatal but getting shot 16 times and still
living to tell the tale is more like a miracle recovery but that's what
happened to Joseph Guzman as he was leaving a bachelor party in Queens New
York on November 25th 2006 Goodman said that he was leaving the party with two
friends Trent Benefield and Sean Bell who was actually the man who is getting
married later that morning the men doing the shooting with three plainclothes
police detectives who were
undercover at the party they said they witnessed Sean Bell arguing outside the
club of a driver of an SUV and they overheard Goodman saying he was going to
get his gun the detectives followed the three men and confronted them as they
headed to bed car it was when they got into the car and the driver Sean Bell
bumped one of the detectives with his car as he tried to get away that the
officers opened fire on the car in all they fired 50 bullets into a car killing
Bell and injuring Bozeman and Benefield when Guzman was admitted to hospital
but doctors counted 19 bullet holes caused by 16 bullets, 7 of which
were found in his body he was shot in the legs, chest, face and had multiple wounds
to his abdomen and intestines. Guzman
went on to make a full recovery and the incident sparked fierce criticism of the
police the three officers were charged with manslaughter but they were later
acquitted on all charges Number 4 Phineas Gage is one of the earliest documented
cases of a severe brain injury and in many ways kick-started modern neurology
because of the ongoing study of a major personality changes that he suffered
after the accident
Gage was the forman of a railroad crew
and on the 13th of September 1848 was excavating rocks to make way for a new
railroad track they did this by drilling holes into the rocks and in placing
explosive powder into them. On that day he was compacting explosive powder into a hole
in the rock with a tamping iron. A tamping attempting is a large on metal rod about 4 feet
long and one and a quarter inches in diameter as he was packing the explosive
down a spark ignited the explosive in the hole and fired the tamping on out of
high speed and through gauges head it entered below his check and exited
completely out of the top of his head before landing some thirty yards away
though now blind in one eye and with a gaping hole in the top of his head
incredibly he was able to walk to an ox cart within minutes of the accident and
was transported to the boarding house where he was staying to be treated by
the local doctor having survived what many thought should have killed him
outright he become a bit of a celebrity especially in medical circles although
he seemed to have recovered as well as can be expected those close to him said
he was no longer the same man he lost all his social inhibitions he couldn't
stick to plans was often drunk bad tempered and as they say
uttered the grossest profanities and showed little defference for his fellows
the damage to his frontal cortex caused by a tempting on effectively performed
what we now know as a frontal lobotomy on him this led to many advances in the
study of a brain and what the effect of a sort of damage could have on the
personality of the injured person the railroad company that once called him a
model employee refused to take him back he drifted from one job to another
before ending up with relatives in San Francisco where he died in 1860 after a
series of seizures at the age of thirty-eight number three
sometimes even when you think you've had enough of life a higher power may well
choose but it's not your time to go and you have to carry on living that's
pretty much what happened to an unnamed Oregon man who tried to kill himself
with a nail gun twelve times the man was high on meth amphetamines and in a
suicidal state when he turned the gun on himself and fired 2 inch long nails into his
own head
doctors only found out what he'd done when he admitted himself to hospital
complaining of a headache and saying that he had an accident with an nailgun but
later he admitted that it was a suicide attempt initially the nails couldn't be
seen but when they X ray him it revealed 6 nails clustered between his right eye and ear 2
below his right ear and 4 on the left side of his head
some of the nails were close to the brain stem and major blood vessels but
none pierced them surgeons removed the nails with pliers and a drill and the man survived with
no lasting effects according to a report written by Dr. Alexander West a
neurosurgeon who oversaw the treatment no one is known to have survived after
deliberately firing so many foreign objects into the head the man was
transferred to a psychiatric center under court order for a month before
leaving against doctors orders
number two in two previous story we had a man trying to kill himself with a nail
gun but in this one the man in question
Dante Autullo from chicago was building a garden shed and had no intention of
trying to kill himself
so when gun he was using misfired he thought it was just grazed his head as a
nail flew past he carried on building the shed and even did some snow plowing it
was only waking up the next day and feeling sick that he decided to go to the
hospital when doctors X-rayed him they found a three and a half inch long
embeded in the center of his brain just millimeters from his motor cortex which
if it had entered would have killed him immediately when he first saw the x-ray
he thought they were having a joke with him until the doctor said "no that's
what's in your head" he was rushed to another hospital for surgery to have it
removed afterwards dante said it felt like he'd been punched in the side of
ahead but thought the nail just grazed his head as it flew past his ear
although there are pain sensitive nerves on the skull there are none in the brain
itself which is why he only felt the pain of a nail going through his skull but
not the nail when it was actually in his brain after the operation he made a full
recovery with no lasting effects and remembers everything happened even
though it might be something he wishes he could forget number 1. To round up this
video and still on a construction tool theme California electrician Ron hunt
was working up a ladder drilling into an overhead surface on August 15th 2003 when
the letter started to give way he made only threw down the drill but as he fell
off a ladder he ended up falling face down onto the 18-inch long,
1-1/2" diameter drill bit that went straight through his right eye socket
and out the back of his head all this time he was still conscious and felt no
pain he said he ran his hands up the drill to his eye and then put the other
hand the back of his head and felt it coming out the back of his skull that's
when he said he felt the shock setting he was flown by helicopter to the Washoe
Medical Center with a drill still lodged in his head when his family arrived to
see him in hospital and saw him with a huge drill through his head he was actually
laughing & joking with the staff his nephew Ben Hunt said that it just didn't
seem possible for him to be alive let alone cracking jokes and telling tales
Ron escaped death because we drill didn't actually go through his brain it just
pushed it to one side as it went through his skull the surgeons wondered how they
might actually remove a drill from his skull but in the end they twisted it and
effectively unscrewed it out of his head he lost his right eye and head a titanium
plate screwed into the skull but was healthy enough within weeks
be interviewed by the news media he subsequently returned to his job and
he's getting on with his life
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