One such incident occurred in the infamous case of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman who survived a large metal tamping rod going straight through his head in Vermont in 1848.

In 1848, a 25-year-old Phineas P Gage was working as a railroad foreman in Vermont. While tamping gunpowder, a meta rod was shot through his head with such force it threw him back several feet.

In a shocking incident in southern China, Aqiang miraculously survived after a metal rod pierced his skull during a fall. The intoxicated man impaled himself on a dinner table, prompting a complex ...

A man miraculously survived after a steel rod impaled his head in a horror accident, leaving him just millimetres from death. Roof painter Michael Richard is lucky to be alive after the freak ...

A Chinese man miraculously survived after a 15-inch metal rod went through his mouth into his head. The tragic incident occurred when he was having dinner with co-workers at a restaurant.

WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES: A roof painter is lucky to be alive after narrowly surviving a freak accident that left him just millimetres from death. Michael Richard was working on the ground floor ...

In a shocking incident in southern China, Aqiang miraculously survived after a metal rod pierced his skull during a fall. The intoxicated man impaled himself on a dinner table, prompting a complex ...