Builder impaled by a two foot long rusty steel bar that went up his bum and exited through his CHEST
The Chinese worker fell from a height of six feet on to the metal pole
A CHINESE construction worker is lucky to be alive after he was impaled by a two-foot-long rusty steel bar.
Harrowing images show where the pole shot through his backside and then back out of his chest.
The 64-year-old was skewered by the spike after falling onto it from around six-foot up.
His coworkers said he lost his footing while working on a platform and landed on the protruding "rebar", which are used to to reinforce concrete.
The man from Chenzhou, in China's Central Hunan Province, was rushed into emergency surgery at the First People's Hospital.
Dr Zhang Jianwen said around 24 inches of the reinforced steel bar - three quarters of its total length - shot into the man's body via one of his buttocks.
It embedded deep inside his chest cavity but he incredibly survived and is now in a critical but stable condition.
Part of the metal was sheared off by firefighters at the worksite who helped him into the hospital.
The hospital said the man suffered damage to numerous internal organs, including one of his lungs, during the accident.