That guy's lucky he didn't bleed out. A person can't lose blood like that for very long at *all*.
One of the neighborhood kids made a crude cannon out of a piece of pipe way back,...was using powder from firecrackers to shoot it.
It exploded and cut the big artery in his leg while he was home alone. They found him with a tourniquet that he had attempted to tie his upper leg off with.
Apparently, he bled out before he could get it tight enough.
