Australian man slashes face open with chainsaw in farm accident

Industrial accidents happen every once in a while, hitting factories and work places, while injuring or even killing workers. Usually, it is the quick thinking of the victim or people around the injured employee, or innovative ways doctors employ that saves a limb or life, like Brazilian surgeons who implanted the severed hand of a factory worker in his stomach temporarily.

On May 6, Bill Singleton, a 68-year-old man from Ballarat, lost control of his chainsaw while working on his farm. Even if he slashed his face open with the chainsaw, Singleton managed to drive himself to the hospital because he could not call an ambulance, reports The Herald Sun.

First, he tied his head up with bandages and drove himself. The accident include Singleton slicing his tongue in half which is why he could not call an ambulance. The Ballarat man recalls that he almost passed out and had to force himself to get back up.

“I was two thirds of the way there and things started to spin, the lights went dark …. I dropped to my knees and was on all fours,” Singleton recalls.

When he arrived at the Royal Melbourne Hospital car park, medics treated his wounds. Even if the saw cut through the old man’s face as far back as his wisdom teeth, it stopped a centimeter away from his carotid artery and larynx. Otherwise, he would have died, doctors say, reports Daily Mail.

Singleton is back home recovering. The accident may have scarred his face, but the Ballarat man says he is not scared of using chainsaws in the future.