In 1848, the then-25-year-old Gage was in a work accident in which an iron rod shot through the front of his skull and all the way through and he survived, according to the outlet. However, he ...

A major train accident was averted when a loco driver of a goods trains stopped his train after detecting an iron pole placed on the tracks.

He landed about 10 feet below him and “on landing, an iron pole at the starter bar of the building column pierced through his head,” doctors said. His coworkers quickly used metal cutters to ...