DIY construction can save a lot of money in the short term but cost you dearly in other ways, as one unfortunate home improvement enthusiast in India discovered recently, after having his brain skewered by a metal rod.

While building a well on his property, Sanjay Bahe, 21, from Balaghat in central India was working on a platform above the nearly-complete watering hole when it gave way beneath his feet. He fell onto the rusted metal rods below like some macabre booby trap from an Indiana Jones film, impaling both his hand and skull in the process.

Indian worker, 21, survived iron rod piercing through his entire head https://t.co/oMTTn9Ee82pic.twitter.com/grX43zVf2T — Real News Reports (@RealNewsReport1) April 14, 2019

He was somehow removed from the well without further injury and rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, remaining conscious throughout the entire ordeal, including the 90-minute brain operation to remove the rusted rod from his skull. It had pierced from his right temporal lobe through to the left frontal region.

Construction worker's miracle escape after he survives being impaled in the head https://t.co/mhboy0Q60Cpic.twitter.com/ngbKPFQyM8 — Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) April 14, 2019

“Giving anaesthesia to the patient in such cases is difficult. I performed the surgery with all caution so that damage to the surrounding structures shouldn’t happen,” senior neurosurgeon Dr. Pramod Giri said as cited by The Daily Mail. The surgeon added that the metal rod missed Bahe’s major cranial blood vessels by a matter of mere millimeters.

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As a testament to the skill of the surgical team, there was reportedly no additional damage or complication in the surgery. Bahe remains under observation in case of infection from the rusted rod.

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Bahe is extremely lucky in more ways than one as his local community has banded together and helped raise money to cover the medical expenses, which reportedly have so far reached Rs90,000 (US$1,299).

“I can do nothing more but thank the doctors for saving my life,” Bahe said of his extraordinary injury.

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