Worker gets a rod in the head A construction worker grasps the steel rod penetrating his head after an accident at a Sydney worksite. Picture: Adam Ward Source: DailyTelegraph A YOUNG man has been impaled in the head with a one-metre long piece of steel at a Sydney worksite. The man, 19, was operating a digger at a site at Lindfield, breaking concrete, when the steel rod penetrated his forehead. "During the process, a piece of steel approximately one metre long has been lodged in his skull," a NSW Ambulance spokesman said. Emergency crews stabilised the man and a CareFlight helicopter flew a doctor to the scene. The man was awake and alert, and at times holding the mangled rod, as he was loaded into a road ambulance to be taken to Royal North Shore Hospital.