This is why your parents told you never to run with scissors! Seven-year-old almost loses an eye after tripping as he played with small shears in Chinese factory

Xiao Wen was holding a pair of mini shears while playing in a factory

He fell face first, and one of the blades missed his eyeball by millimetres

It wasn't until five hours after the incident that the shears were removed

This unfortunate youngster discovered why you should never run while holding scissors after getting a pair stuck in just millimetres from his eye for five hours.

Seven-year-old Xiao Wen from Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang Province was holding a pair of mini shears while playing in a factory workshop while his parents worked.

But he tripped and fell face first on them, with one of blades only missing his eyeball by a matter of millimetres.



Xiao Wen, 7, was left with a pair of mini shears protruding from his face for five hours after tripping on them while playing in the factory where his parents worked

Close: X-rays show the mini shears impaled in seven-year-old Xiao Wen's face just millimetres from his eye



The small tool was pushed through the bone around his eye socket, becoming lodged deep in his face.

It wasn’t until five hours after the incident that the shears were finally removed as Wen had to be moved from a local hospital to a bigger one.



Doctor Zhu Guangdong from 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University said the two blades thrust into the Xiao Wen's face, missing his right eye by milimetres.



It wasn't until five hours after the incident that the shears were finally removed as Wen had to be moved from a local hospital to a bigger one

He said: 'His right eye socket fractured, and one blade nearly injured the eyeball.'

X-rays taken before surgeons removed the shears show just how close one of the blades came to the eyeball.

