 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. The man had been working near a furnace when he fell into the molten metal ( Getty Images) 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 o){kind=link}
The 25-year-old man was up to his knees in the boiling aluminium metal furnace but miraculously braved the pain and pulled himself out in St Gallen, northeastern Switzerland
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.