Rock miner survives 4,160-volt shock to head and embraces his scars

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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.

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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.

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