A six-foot iron bar fell from above and pricked into the head of a construction worker, but the young worker endured the dreadful accident.

A 1.8-metre metal bar fell from the fifth floor of an under-construction building, pierced through24-year-old Eduardo Leite's helmet, entered his skull and exited between his eyes.

He was rushed to Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto Hospital, where doctors withdrew the metal bar from Leite's skull during a long surgery. Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff at the hospital, said it took surgeons five hours to operate on Leite.

Speaking about the surgery, Essinger said, “His skull was opened, they examined the brain and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in the same direction it entered the brain.”

Leite was astonishingly conscious when he was rushed to the hospital. The wounded himself told the doctors what had happened to him. After the surgery, he showed no negative consequences.

Leite escaped by just a few centimeters from losing one of his eyes and becoming paralyzed on the left part of his body.

Essinger added that it really was a miracle that Leite survived.