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London, March 25 (ANI): A factory worker in England survived after being dragged through a 5-inch gap in machinery.

Matthew Lowe, who was working at Compass Engineering’s factory at Barugh near Barnsley as a school leaver, said he is lucky to be alive even though it left him with serious injuries.

Lowe, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had his back broken in two places, his pelvis shattered, both hips and several ribs fractured and his stomach and bowel ruptured.

While he was going through the gap, measuring the size of a CD case, the only sound he heard was his right arm snapping.

Now, two years after the event, the father-of-one’s only visible sign of injury is a weakened right arm.

“I still don’t know how I didn’t die,” Sky News quoted Lowe as saying.

“As the machine dragged me through I just relaxed because I knew I couldn’t do anything and I thought that was the end for me.

“I felt the machine grab me and at that point I knew something serious was going to happen.

“I never felt pain, the only thing I felt was my arm snap and then it was over in seconds,” he added.

Surprisingly, the machine eventually deposited him on the floor with his clothes in tatters.

He said he remembered lying on the floor, trying to breathe, and being determined not to leave his young daughter Evie growing up without a father.

“I just thought, I’ve got to get through this for my little girl, she can’t grow up without a dad, so I just lay there and did my best,” he said.

It was then that the pain hit him and other workers raced to help him after hearing his screams.

He spent a month in hospital and had to have six operations to pin his broken limbs back together again.

Lowe is now back at work at the company and training to be a site supervisor. (ANI)