Australian actor Dominic Purcell narrowly escaped serious injury this week on the set of Prison Break, when an iron bar fell on his head, breaking his nose in two places.
Purcell was on-set in Morocco when the accident occurred, and he was airlifted from Marrakesh to Casablanca for urgent medical treatment, where he was told that he was lucky to be alive.
“Had a little accident on set,” the actor later said on Instagram. “Pays to have a thick skull when an iron bar falls on your head … Haha. I got a free nose job out of it … Stoked to be alive. All good.”
According to Purcell’s doctors, his “unusually tough tissue fibre” saved him from more serious injury.
“Oh, being flown out on a helicopter was another adventure I didn’t expect,” he continued. “Thought the bloody thing was going to fall from the sky!!! What a day it was. Grateful to be alive.”
“I wish I could say I discovered something profound out of my near miss. Ummmmm nothing yet just a broken nose and a hundred stitches in my head.”
Prison Break returns early 2017, for a 10-episode season.
Source: Dominic Purcell / Instagram.
