Truckee resident Ron Hunt, who has been dubbed "Miracle Man" by friends, survived being impaled through the eye with an 18-inch long, 1 1/2-inch diameter chip auger drill bit. While using a drill above his head on Aug. 15, the six-foot ladder he was standing on started to wobble, Hunt's nephew Ben Hunt said. "The ladder started to 'walk' on him," Ben said. "He lost his balance and threw the drill down - which is normal for us (construction workers)." Then, he fell off the ladder face-first and onto the drill, which went through his right eye and out his skull, just above his right ear. According to Ben, doctors told him the drill pushed his brain aside, rather than impaling it, which could have caused further - and most likely vastly more extensive - damage. Ron was airlifted by Care Flight to Washoe Medical Center in Reno, where Ben and his father (Ron's brother) Chris met him in the emergency room. "The nurses braced us for it before we saw him," Ben said. "It didn't seem real - it seemed like a movie. I wasn't sure what to feel."

Ben said at that point the nurses had cleaned him up, but the drill was still in. Still, Ben said his uncle was doing better than he expected. "He was talking, telling jokes," he said. "It didn't seem possible for him to be alive, seeing him with a drill bit through his head."Corrin Keck, a friend of Ron's, said other than loss of sight in his right eye, she has not seen any major effects. "At this point, we haven't noticed any problems with his motor skills and speech." She did say that he, obviously, is in some pain, but he is dealing with it.

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Thats nasty, ouch,

Construction workers should throw there tools down yes, but they should also try and throw them away from the ladder, usually to the side, this way when they fall they will normally miss the object, as they will fall either straight down or away from the wall they had the ladder propped against.

that was lucky to say the least...

Not as bad as that guy who cut off his arm with a chainsaw then shot himself 16 times in the head with a nail gun to put him out of his missery. He ended up surviving.

and he still survived

i think that would be a scary experience. the guy had visitors with a drill through his eye and made jokes! what a character

well, we all sort of see out of one eye. we have a dominant eye and a secondary(i don't know if this is the term for it or not, but ill use it anyways) eye. the dominant eye usually has poor vision but is extremely fast moving- it leads the secondary eye to objects. the secondary eye has better vision and focuses in on things, but it extremely slow moving. the combination of the two is what we call normal vision.

if his dominant eye was the one that was lost, i imagine it would take time to get the remaining eye moving faster but he could see well. if it was the secondary eye, i bet it would be easier to adjust but he would have poorer vision.

my dominant eye is in bad shape because i got stabbed by a spear in it. my secondary eye makes up for it with great vision though.

Also, they benefit of 2 eyes is depth perception.

Imagine paying 12 dollars for a ticket to go see the newest 3D IMAX movie only to keep 1 eye closed the entire time. Sucks eh? I would surely miss depth perception, though I'm sure the brain would compensate somehow. It usually does.

yes, thank you for pointing that out, Dust. i think youre correct about the brain compensating for it too.

It is amazing he even actually survived!

I saw this one Fox channel 11 network show called 100 most weird things pulled out of the human body. One of them was a man who was on a ladder and fell and landed on some steel poles, uncapped, one went thru has head, he survivied!

It reminds me of This story

will there be anybody having a screwdriver going through the head?