Welder, 23, is left with a 3cm-long metallic wire hanging out of his eye after his tool ‘BURST’ (and his 20/20 vision remained unscathed)

A 23-year-old welder was left with a piece of metal hanging out of the corner of his eye after his tool burst.

The unnamed man, from India, avoided going blind – because the 3cm-long metallic wire narrowly missed his eye and burrowed into the skin.

Stunned ophthalmologists revealed the strange incident in the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) Case Reports.