Ron Hunt from California, was working on his construction job when his ladder started to wobble. He remembered the safety procedures and threw the drill, with the 18-inch-long bit, down when he realised he was going to fall.
He fell off the ladder face first and onto the drill, he said “by the time I was falling and I’d let the drill go down, I was already on top of it. I ran my hands up the drill bit, up to my eye, and put my other hand in the back of my head and felt it coming through the back of my head, and that’s where pretty much the shock set in.”
The doctors explained that the drill bit had pushed the brain aside like an egg yolk rather than go through it which would have either killed him or left him with severe brain damage.
After reaching hospital with the drill still in his head, the best idea the doctors could come up with, was to unscrew the drill bit by hand from his skull. Ron lost an eye and suffered some nerve damage to his face, but his nephew thinks he will some day laugh about it. “It’s just going to be one of those stories. He’ll joke around with his glass eye and pop it out” said Ben Hunt.
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