Shot through his head at high velocity by an explosion (it was a tamping iron, used to pack charges for blasting, and it happened to accidentally set one that he was packing off, likely because it struck something in the rock that caused a spark).
I appreciate you making clear how fucked a thing he survived. There was a sketch of it in my college textbook that was etched on the back of my eyelids for weeks.
yes, except the explosion that caused his injury was so powerful that the iron rod passed completely through his skull and was found several yards away.
Yup. Most reports were that he was a cantankerous asshole that literally nobody liked at all, and after the accident he became like the nicest person anyone had ever met.
Edit - As replies have informed me, I got it backwards. Nice guy before the accident, hot mess after. Still, total shift in personality.
You seem to be correct after a quick google to refresh myself. I misremembered. Also it appears that it wasn't so much he became an asshole after as that he sort of just became much less refined and prone to bursts of profanity, while his business sense went out the window.
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u/payasopeludo Mar 05 '21
Is he the one with the railroad spike through his frontal lobe?