While bench pressing heavy weight, barbell slips from man’s hands and falls on his neck nearly killing him on the spot in western Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/23
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — While lifting weights early Sunday (April 22) morning,
Stock image of man bench pressing. (US Air Force Central Command)
a man at a gym in western Taiwan’s Taichung is in critical condition after a barbell fell on his neck while attempting a solo bench press, reported Apple Daily.
At 7:50 a.m. yesterday morning, a 27-year-old man surnamed Lee (李) was bench pressing a heavy weight without a spotter at a gym in Taichung’s Xitun District when his arms suddenly gave way and the barbell fell right on top of his neck near his clavicle. Others in the gym who saw the accident, lifted the barbell off of him and found that he was not breathing and did not have a pulse.
Paramedics were called to the scene and the immediately attached an automatic external defibrillator (AED), but the device did not recommend delivering a shock. Instead, they implemented CPR and rushed him to the hospital. [FULL STORY]