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Factory robot malfunctions and impales worker with 10 foot-long steel spikes

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A CHINESE factory worker has survived being skewered with ten metal spikes when a machine malfunctioned.

The 49-year-old, named as Mr Zhou, was working on the night shift at a porcelain factory in Hunan Hunan province when he was struck by a falling mechanical arm.

The accident resulted in him being impaled with foot long, half inch thick metal rods, the People’s Daily reported.

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