Lawnmower Fires 3.5 Inch Metal Wire Into Man’s Skull

A Mississippi man was mowing his lawn and suddenly felt like a rock or something hit his face, only to find out after visiting the hospital that a 3.5 inch metal wire got shot into his nose and into his skull from his lawnmower, the Huffington Post reported. Bill Parker took a day off to do some yard work and said he wished he had stayed at work instead.

“At first I thought a rock had flew out and hit me and struck me in the face,” Parker, 34, told the Sun-Herald. “It threw me back a little bit and it hurt real bad. I felt my face but I didn’t feel any disfiguring or anything. I saw blood, so I knew I got a bloody nose.”

Parker went to the hospital to be checked out because he thought he might have a broken cheekbone from the incident, but he never imagined that a 3.5 inch metal wire had been shot into his skull by the lawnmower.

“The metal had somehow made its way through a tangle of really important nerves and arteries and finally rested about a millimeter from both carotid artery and my jugular vein,” Parker said, according to CBS News. “Guess it just wasn’t my time yet.”

Doctors removed the wire in 20 minutes and prescribed antibiotics to Parker. He was expected to recover quickly from the incident, but did not seem to be looking forward to mowing his lawn any time soon again.

“Bill Parker’s ‘Sunday fun day’ came dangerously close to tragedy after a lawn mower propelled a 3.5-inch metal fence wire up his nose and into his head,” the Bradenton Herald reported.

Parker and his fiancée, Katie Heggins, discussed the incident and decided he should be taken to the hospital to have the injury checked.

“At first I thought it would be an in-out thing and they’d give me some aspirin and tell me to sleep it off,” Parker told the Bradenton Herald. “They started hooking things up to me, like an IV and heart monitor, and I started realizing things were getting a little more serious.”

A CT scan was conducted at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi, that revealed the 3.5 inch metal wire that was shot into the man’s skull while mowing the lawn.

Parker reported on Facebook that he is “grateful to be alive” and that doctors were amazed and said he was lucky to alive, considering the possibility the metal wire could have caused a much worse injury than it did.

Far worse injuries have been caused by lawnmowers, the Inquisitr reported, such as an instance where a toddler’s legs were amputated in a lawn mower accident.

“According to a statement by the local fire and rescue, the 2-year-old daughter of the couple at the residence raced into the yard towards her father on the riding lawn mower. Neither the child or her father heeded the warning screams of the mother, who had only taken her watchful eye off the child for a moment,” the Inquisitr reported. “The little girl slipped and fell into the immediate path of the vehicle, and her father was unable to stop the mower in time, reports My Fox Tampa Bay. The blades instantly amputated both of the toddler’s legs just below the knee, and part of her hand. The child was flown to Tampa General Hospital for treatment. No additional information is available at this time regarding her progress.”

[Photo of Bill Parker from www.bradenton.com]