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03-25-2011, 06:08 AM
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Being able to survive being pulled through machinary! Quote: Man Survives Being Pulled Through Tiny Gap
6:14pm UK, Thursday March 24, 2011
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.
While he was going through the gap, measuring the size of a CD case, the only sound he heard was his right arm snapping.
Now, two years after the event, the father-of-one's only visible sign of injury is a weakened right arm.
The factory worker's pelvis was shattered
"I still don't know how I didn't die," Mr Lowe, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said.
"As the machine dragged me through I just relaxed because I knew I couldn't do anything and I thought that was the end for me."
He added: "I felt the machine grab me and at that point I knew something serious was going to happen.
"I never felt pain, the only thing I felt was my arm snap - and then it was over in seconds."
Astonishingly, the machine eventually deposited him on the floor with his clothes in tatters.
He said he remembered lying on the floor, trying to breathe, and being determined not to leave his young daughter Evie growing up without a father.
The only visible sign of injury now is a weakened right arm
"I just thought, I’ve got to get through this for my little girl, she can't grow up without a dad, so I just lay there and did my best."
It was then that the pain hit him and other workers raced to help him after hearing his screams.
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.
| Factory Worker Matthew Lowe Lucky To Be Alive After Being Pulled Through Five-Inch Machinery Gap | UK News | Sky News
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03-25-2011, 09:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | | I saw this on the news this morning. Guy looks like nothing ever happened to him. Of course, if he took his shirt off, it would be an entirely different story.
Incredible, incredible story. I'm guessing the fact that he didn't resist helped him survive.
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03-25-2011, 09:17 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Crazy. There was just this week a guy up here who fell in a sewer pipe and was washed about a mile down before they got him out.
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03-25-2011, 09:22 AM
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03-25-2011, 09:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | | Hey, lay off the guy. He's got a mohawk. Proper grammar isn't metal enough.
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03-25-2011, 09:33 AM
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Although it would be a lot better story if it discussed exactly how the accident happened and described or showed the machinery. 
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03-25-2011, 09:51 AM
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03-25-2011, 11:33 AM
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Getting small tax returns.
Speaking in short sentences and getting short answers.
(Probably be named Curt)
Not spending the extra money buying , oh I don't know...large sized condoms (saving a few bucks is probably good, eh, buddy?...heheheh)
Buy milk by the pint instead of the gallon.
Can't be called a big jazz-ole.
I guess there are plenty of bennies (that's short for "benefits").
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03-25-2011, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by MEKer
Not spending the extra money buying , oh I don't know...large sized condoms (saving a few bucks is probably good, eh, buddy?...heheheh)
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03-25-2011, 12:05 PM
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Amazing story, simply amazing.
Hehe, benefits of being short? Having to put up with my jokes. Whenever my girlfriend (who is about 5ft tall) is grumpy and we're talking, I just say 'don't get short with me!'. Puts a smile on her face everytime. |
03-25-2011, 12:22 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | I'm still trying to figure out how his head fit through a 5" opening. He must be really small.
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03-25-2011, 12:26 PM
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03-25-2011, 01:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: GTA, Ontario | | | "I don't think it's a bit of a stretch to say his entire life's story was compressed into seconds during that ordeal. How thin the line is between life and death. Glad he was able to pull through!"
Don't know if it was intentional, but I lol'd
Amazing story, nonetheless.
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03-25-2011, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by elgecko | Except for the whole surviving bit. |
03-25-2011, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon Except for the whole surviving bit. | He DID survive! |
03-25-2011, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by elgecko He DID survive! | The guy into the jet intake?
Edit: Holy crap, that's a different video than I thought. Wow. |
03-25-2011, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon The guy into the jet intake? | Yeah, the very end of the video shows him a few hours after the "sucking". |
03-25-2011, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon The guy into the jet intake? | Yep. |
03-25-2011, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by L-A Benifits? Machinary? How's your gremmer? | Gremmer's fine, speeling not so ! 
Pfft, I'm not an english major, IR Scientist 
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03-25-2011, 04:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Zürich | | That's all well and good, but what kinda view does he get at gigs?
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