A worker fell into a pool of 720C molten aluminium at a factory – but somehow he survived.
The electrician fell tumbled into a furnace filled with the melted metal while at work in St Gallen, northeastern Switzerland.
The 25-year-old was up to his knees in the boiling metal but miraculously braved the pain and pulled himself out.
He had been working on the aluminium furnace with a colleague on Wednesday evening.
But he somehow managed to fall into a circular opening at the top of the blazing fire.
Swiss air rescue doctors and looked after him after he was seen by paramedics.
The man was flown by helicopter to hospital with extensive burns on his body.
An investigation by St Gallen City Police is probing how the accident happened.
But it is not the first occasion someone has had a lucky escape with molten metal.
The Mirror reported how a man had lucky to escape with after a huge vat of molten metal crashed down onto a factory floor – spilling everywhere.
Incredible CCTV footage from inside the warehouse, believed to be in Iran, shows a man walking across the room as the hot metal is moved overhead.
But as the container, with the red hot liquid inside was about to tip into a different part of the plant, a huge bracket gave way.
The lava-like liquid gushed out of the container, landing all over the floor, just where the man had been walking seconds before.
In the same Swiss city as the aluminium accident, a woman was seriously hurt after she got out of her car with the engine still on only for it to run her over three times.
The 45-year-old woman had stepped out of her vehicle in the residential area in order to get something out of the boot but then car, which was on a slight slope, began rolling backwards.
It struck the woman, who hasn’t been named, and she fell to the street.
The car had then rammed into another vehicle and rebounded back in the opposite direction, running over the woman a second time, police said on Friday.
However the car then hit the pavement, sending it back towards the woman and running her over a third time, before finally hitting a wooden barrier and coming to a halt.
The woman was sent to hospital in a serious condition, according to Swiss news agency ATS.
It comes after a lorry driver was crushed to death when he forgot to turn on the handbrake in an industrial estate in Foston, Derbyshire, in September 2020.
Gordon Phillip Moxon, 65, was pinned by his own HGV against the rear of another lorry in the tragedy.
