The school playground should be a safe place and an enjoyable time for a young child. Sadly, that wasn’t the case for a 6-year-old boy when things went terribly wrong during recess, leaving him almost unrecognizable and in a coma. Be warned, the images are graphic.
Alex Hook, a 6-year-old boy from Kenosha, Wisconsin, left his classroom for recess at River View Elementary on a Friday to have a good time, playing with his peers. Sadly, tragedy struck as the first-grader — who loves dinosaurs, trucks, boats, and hanging out with his brother Nathan — bent down, not realizing the innocent move was a recipe for disaster.
As Alex bent over on the school playground, he was struck in the head in a terrible, freak accident. “Had he been standing up, maybe nothing more than a broken leg had occurred,” his godmother explained. Unfortunately, because of Alex’s position, his injuries were much worse than just a broken bone when a piece of rebar flew out of nowhere, hitting his head with great force, Newsner reported.