Back in September 2019, Loren Schauers was involved in a horrific event while working as a labourer, and has since documented his recovery and life with a growing base of followers.

Just 18 years old at the time, the lad was driving a forklift across a bridge in the US when it veered off-course, sending him plummeting 50 feet to the ground.

He suffered life-changing injuries after the vehicle pinned him to the ground. Schauers ended up having hemicorporectomy surgery – everything below his waist amputated – to save his life after his pelvis was completely crushed.

He’s hoping for 10k for Christmas. (Facebook/Sabia & Loren Real Account)

And in an update to his followers, he shared his hopes for this Christmas.

Writing with his wife Sabia, he posted on Facebook yesterday (17 November): “Just a little shout out to all of you for supporting and following us, 10K by Christmas would be super cool.

“We appreciate each and every one of you for helping us create this community!!”

They shared a screenshot of the ‘Page Overview’ for their joint account, showing they are currently sitting at 8,904 followers.

With several years having passed since the man’s freak accident, he still lives with pain and difficulties.

A recent update on the page on 15 November explained: “Loren is still not able to really go anywhere between the pain and not being able to use his bucket going to Mom and Dad’s was not a good plan.

“Luckily mom and dad came out and cooked at our house. Dad especially liked it when he realised he could just leave without cleaning up or doing dishes wishing everybody a peaceful week and see you next Sunday, love you all!”

The couple shares updates on various social platforms. (facebook/Sabia & Loren Real Account)

In a previous Youtube video, Schauers reflected on it being five years since the accident and explained the pain was becoming more manageable.

He explained the rehab techniques he’d been taught by doctors had helped ‘erase the phantom pain’ over the years.

He said: “Five years later, pain’s under control, life is finally managed in a way that we can control it now.

“I don’t know how to explain it, it’s not as epic, things aren’t like bombs dropping on us any more. We kind of know what to expect with certain things, and can kind of tell what’s gonna happen.

“Me and Sabia are doing great. We don’t get out much. We went to Lollapalooza in Chicago and had a great time obviously.”

A man who was cut in half by a forklift has given us an update, alongside his wife, five years after the horrific accident.

Loren Schauers was just 18-years-old when he suffered an almost fatal injury that turned his entire life upside down.

While working as a labourer in Montana, US, on 27 September, 2019, the forklift he was operating veered off a bridge, falling 50ft into the ground.

He has previously shared how his life has changed following the accident, which saw him be caught beneath the forklift. Loren made the painful decision to give authorities permission to cut and amputate everything below his waist, as it was that or death for the then teenager.

Loren Schauers was just 18 when he was involved in a forklift accident, resulting in him being cut in half (SWNS)

Even more painfully so, Loren was conscious following the accident – where his right arm and pelvis were crushed – and he felt the full extent of the pain during a 10/15 minute wait for his co-workers to help him up.

As a result, three of his limbs were amputated, and his life was changed forever as he found that many of his friends weren’t loyal enough to stick around.

He also realised that it would be difficult to make any new friends in the years following.

But along with his wife, he runs a YouTube channel called Sabia and Loren, as he gives their 642,000 subscribers an insight into his life and what he does on a day to day basis.

During one of their latest videos, he provided an update on his and Sabia’s lives exactly five years from the incident, revealing that his pain is now more manageable, praising rehab techniques he’d learnt from doctors.

Revealing that they ‘know what to expect’ with things nowadays, he also said that him and Sabia were ‘doing great’, though the couple ‘don’t do much’, as they read books and watch TV most of the time.

Sabia, who has been in a relationship with Loren since before his accident, was then asked: “Is your situation now anything like you expected after the accident?”

She answered: “Yes and no, I saw us still being together and settled down but I don’t think I necessarily I guess had a vision for the future.

Sabia admitted that she takes it ‘a day at a time’ (Youtube/Sabia and Loren)

“It’s just always kind of been in the now since the accident happened so like when it happened I knew I wasn’t going anywhere and then we went through the processes of the hospital and rehab.”

“I don’t know I guess since the accident happened I haven’t really really thought farther ahead than a day at a time so I hoped we’d still be together but I didn’t really have any visions for the future,” Sabia admitted.

Loren then followed up by agreeing with his wife completely, saying that that’s ‘exactly how it’s been’ over the past few years.