Smallest gap traversed
- Who
- Matthew Lowe
- What
- 12.5 centimetre(s)
- Where
- United Kingdom (Barnsley,Compass Engineering factory,)
- When
- December 2008
The smallest gap through which a human body has passed, and emerged alive, is 12.5 cm (5 in), when a high-powered conveyor system dragged plate welder Matthew Lowe (UK) into machinery at a factory in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK, in December 2008.
The 22-year-old Lowe emerged from the machine - which processed heavy steel beams with a broken back, a ruptured stomach and bowel, a shattered pelvis, and fractured hips, ribs and right arm, despite passing through a gap no larger than a CD case.