An accident occur in China yesterday night around 11:30PM Philippine time when a Chinese factory worker was accidentally shot by the robotic arm used in porcelain making when the robot malfunctioned. Instead of shooting the porcelain product to fasten the parts together the robot arm turned in different direction and towards to the worker which happens to be nearby the robot and hitting the man in different parts of his body.
The 49-year-old, named as Mr Zhou, was working on the night shift at a porcelain factory in Hunan Hunan province China. The accident resulted in him being impaled with foot long, half inch thick metal rods.
He was first taken to a local hospital before he was transferred to the Xiangya Hospital of Central South University due to the severity of his injuries.
Six steel rods fixed on a steel plate pierced his right shoulder and chest, and four penetrated elsewhere in his body.
During the operation, doctors found that one of the rods missed an artery by just 0.5mm.
The nails also presented a problem to the medical team as they prepared for the operation.
“They were relatively big so there was no means of getting fitting the patient into the X-ray machine while the nails themselves could have caused interference with X-rays,” said Wu Panfeng, an associate professor of hand microsurgery.
Surgeons worked through the night to take out all of the 10 steel nails inserted in Mr Zhou’s body.
His condition is now described as stable and he will undergo treatment and physiotherapy to assist his recovery, and he is already able to move his right arm.
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