Miner survives being impaled by 2m crowbar
26 July 2015 - 02:00
Danie de Wet has a bizarre souvenir: a 2m crowbar which pierced most of his torso - entering between his legs, passing through his ribcage and exiting high up through his back, near his left shoulder blade. Miraculously, the 34-year-old engineer survived, in part because the industrial crowbar missed most of his vital organs.
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