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Construction Worker Survives After 6 Inch Nail Impales His Heart

May 4, 2016 Shane Hedmond
Photo by Daniel R. Blume, CC BY-SA 2.0

Photo by Daniel R. Blume, CC BY-SA 2.0

As you’re probably aware, falls are the leading cause of construction job site casualties, because if landing from the fall itself doesn’t hurt you bad enough, there’s a good chance that you’ll fall onto something sharp.  Just last week, we shared an article last week about a construction worker in India who was impaled though this stomach by a piece of steel rebar and survived.  This week, we learned about a man in Saudi Arabia that suffered a fall and landed on a nail that was sticking up through a piece of wood.

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