The factory worker had both his hands destroyed in a machine-induced industrial accident

Jan 8, 2014 21:21 GMT  ·  By

An 18-year-old boy working in a factory in Hunan Province, China had both his hands severely crushed in a horrible work-related accident. The doctors were unable to save the boy's hands and gave him bone and flesh pincer-like extremities instead.

The industrial accident occurred on December 11, while the man, Wang Jin, was fulfilling his work duties during the factory's night shift. A malfunctioning hammer machine lead to his hands being completely crushed and sent him directly to the hospital with remaining pieces of bones and flesh.

Doctors from Xiang Ya Hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province were shocked at the sight of the pieces of broken hands and fingers brought together with the suffering young man. Being unable to save his entire hands they decided to at least give him back some of his hand operating abilities by creating pincers out of the pieces.

Medical staff struggled to salvage as much as they could but they were only able to use some of the human pieces in a nine-hour-long surgical procedure.

The grasping tool resembling hands each have two fingers, Mr. Wang's right hand has the thumb and the other hands left finger, while the left hand has the index and the ring finger, notes Metro News.

This is not the first unbelievable emergency procedure Chinese doctors have executed recently in order to salvage as much as they could from people's use of limbs, as just a few weeks ago a man, also from the Hunan province, had his hand grafted to his ankle for more than a month after a work-related accident.

The man's hand was severed during his shift and wasn't retrieved immediately, making it unable to reattach at that particular moment. In order to keep the hand from dying doctors grafted it to the man's ankle keeping it until they were able to successfully put it back to its rightful place. After the surgery, the man was expected to regain full use of his appendage.