Wood pierces forehead of Nepali worker

Lucky to be alive: Vasanth lying still while waiting for treatment. Doctors at the Segamat Hospital later removed smaller pieces of the wood from his head and admitted him for observation. - Bernama

SEREMBAN: A Nepali worker had to endure two hours of pain after a metre-long piece of wood he was cutting pierced his forehead in a freak accident at a sawmill.

Vasanth Limbu, 30, was working at a wood cutting machine at the sawmill in Gemas when the wood splinter struck him in the head at 8.25am yesterday.