Miracle Man survives drill bit
Published: September 3, 2003
Ron Hunt’s friends and family have been calling him the “Miracle Man” ever since a 45cm-long drill bit pierced his right eye and came out of the back of his skull.
“It didn’t seem possible for him to be alive, seeing him with a drill bit through his head,” his nephew Ben Hunt said.
The construction worker from Truckee, California, lost an eye but survived the freak accident last month with no brain damage, after falling from a ladder and on to
the drill.
The 3.8cm-diameter chip auger drill bit was still in his head when his brother, Chris Hunt, and nephew, Ben, met him in a hospital emergency room.
“It didn’t seem real - it seemed like a movie. I wasn’t sure what to feel,” said Ben.
Doctors explained that the drill bit pushed his brain aside rather than pushing into it, which could have caused serious brain damage or death, Ben said.
While he was drilling above his head, the 2m ladder Ron was standing on started to wobble, so he tossed the drill aside - as construction workers are trained to do. He then fell off the ladder face-first and on to the drill.
“I ran my hands up the drill bit, up to my eye, and put my other hand on the back of my head and felt it coming through the back of my head,” Ron said. “And that’s when shock set in.”
He was taken by helicopter to hospital. After weighing their options, doctors essentially unscrewed the bit to remove it.
His nephew thinks he’ll be able to laugh about it some day.
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