Builder survives after 6ft bar pierces skull

A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6ft metal bar fell from above and pierced his head.

Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff at Rio de Janeiro’s Miguel Couto Hospital, said doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from Eduardo Leite’s skull during a five-hour surgery.

“He was taken to the operating room, his skull was opened, they examined the brain, and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in the same direction it entered the brain,” Essinger said.