A dad was given a five per cent chance of survival after he was electrocuted by 4,160 volts - and now wears his scars with "pride".
John Pendleton, 36, was working as a rock miner on a piece of heavy machinery - which runs off electricity - when the high voltage entered his head.
He doesn't remember what happened or why but woke up nine days later from a coma - with third and fourth degree burns to 30 percent of his upper extremities.
John had a brain bleed, skull fracture and traumatic brain injury and his wife Tiffany Pendleton, 35, was told he only had a five per cent chance of making it.
The dad-of-two had surgeries to remove the burnt skin from his head and seven blood transfusions.
John Pendleton, 36, was working as a rock miner on a piece of heavy machinery - which runs off electricity - when the high voltage entered his head.
He doesn't remember what happened or why but woke up nine days later from a coma - with third and fourth degree burns to 30 percent of his upper extremities.
John had a brain bleed, skull fracture and traumatic brain injury and his wife Tiffany Pendleton, 35, was told he only had a five per cent chance of making it.
The dad-of-two had surgeries to remove the burnt skin from his head and seven blood transfusions.
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00:00So I get this question quite often and it is, John, how did it feel to be electrocuted?
00:13I don't know.
00:14I don't know what it felt like, but I mean, as you can see, it definitely wasn't good.
00:44I was electrocuted, I took 4,160 volts atop my head, a year out of the hospital after
01:01I was healing is where the electricity hit my skull, it absorbed itself.
01:06So now I do have a hole in my skull and if you watch close, I can move it.
01:14So everybody does ask me, how do you protect your head?
01:17Are you going to do a plate, all that?
01:19The plate surgery to do that is risky and a very long procedure, so I'm not sure when
01:24I'll do it, but for now, I protect my head with a hat every day, put it on, go outside,
01:30do my thing.
01:33So I have a bump cap that goes in any one of my hats.
01:38They're not that expensive.
01:41Comes out and I can put it in any snapback.