999: Critical Condition star 'expected to be dead' after nearly losing his face
dailystar.co.ukChannel 5's 999: Critical Conditions episode on Wednesday (June 15) will not be the for the faint hearted.On the first episode of season four, medic are faced with with a frightful situation when Press Setter Operator Simon Wright is raced in after a sheet of industrial metal slams had sliced through his face.The trauma team leaders and surgeons work tirelessly to assess and stem many of the facial issues caused by the industrial accident.Simon, who is a young father explained to Daily Star that doctors were astounded that he was still alive to tell the tale after the frightening ordeal - which the mental worker has no memory of.The role of a press setter is to set up mechanical and hydraulic presses to produce powdered metal-parts.Recalling the harrowing situation, Simon told us: "I don't actually remember the accident itself. "But things have been pieced together to a certain degree for me.
So to my understanding, I was bending a piece of work, or possibly even taking a little bit of a bend out of a piece of work.
I'm not 100% Sure. "And the steel bar snapped in half under the pressure, with one half going out of the back of the press and the other half going forwards, straight into me which is less than ideal. "So the piece of metal just snapped from my understanding, just at the wrong place at the wrong time, I suppose." Remembering back to his time at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, Simon added: "I was unconscious from what I understand and I’d suffered pretty grim trauma.
I think I was knocked out and then went to hospital. "We’ve since seen the footage of what is going out tonight and I was sort of awake but you wouldn’t have got any sense out of me.
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