A scientist whose scalp was torn off in an industrial accident has described theterrifying ordeal, recalling how she astonishingly carried the severed scalp 200 metres to seek help. Dr Pia Winberg lost 30% of her scalp after her hair got entangled in a high-powered filtration pump at her South Coast production facility inAustralia.
The 55-year-old miraculously freed herself, picked up her bloody scalp and carried it 200 metres to a nearby laboratory to ask a colleague to call an ambulance. The tragic day on February 7 2019, saw the marine scientist lose two and a half litres of blood at the scene with ambulance crews attempting to stabilise her for hours before she was airlifted to Sydney's St George Hospital. Plastic surgeon Adrian Sjarif led a surgical team that operated on her for approximately six hours.
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Dr Winberg, who has no recollection of carrying her ripped bodypart in her hands, has now recounted the terrifying day.
"I was wearing my factory cap, protective eyewear and hearing protection," Pia, from Narrawallee, Australia, told creatorzine.com. "I assumed that the small ball grip at the end of the valve handle unthreaded, and rolled under the machine. Why else I would have been on my knees with my head just above floor level?
"That's where I found myself. The next memory was a just sense of frustration, as I tried to work out why my hair felt like it was tangled in two directions in something. I brought my hands down in front of me.
"In confusion, I wondered why my hands were completely covered in red – that was when my memory stopped again. I must have managed to extract my hair, remove my scalp and its hair from the machine, and walked, holding it, 200 metres to the lab building. I opened the door and said my colleague Rachel's name, after which my memory stops."
Rachel described Dr Winberg as eerily composed despite being soaked in blood. Dr Winberg recounted: "I turned and walked down the corridor to my office chair.
"Rachel ran after me and it was then that she could see my skull sticking out of the top of my head, and my scalp and mobile phone in my hands in my lap. She understood then that it was me who had had the accident, and she acted fast."
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
