The Mind-Boggling Survival of NJ Dad After Tree Branch Impalement

A New Jersey father miraculously survived — and insisted he wasn’t even in serious pain — after a “huge” piece of a tree branch shot through his face and into his brain when he fell from a ladder in his yard.

Troy Hathaway, 45, came just inches from death while cutting branches in his backyard in Glassboro when the ladder suddenly gave out under him and he fell about 8 feet.

When he got up, he had no idea that a broken branch was sticking out of a massive hole in his jaw.