That’s gotta hurt!Tales of the tape wormReal survivors’ tales of things removed from their bodies

A special not for the squeamish

X-ray of a construction worker with a re-inforcing bar in his head. He lived.

CALL it “Tumor TV” or “Help! I’ve fallen and I’ve got a 12-inch metal spike through my head.”

But please don’t call it tasteless, says the producer of a new Fox special, “101 Things Removed from the Human Body.”

“These are stories of survival, these are stories about people,” said veteran reality producer, Eric Schotz.

” ‘Dateline’ does it all the time and no one threatens them,” he says. “They just never put it all together” into one show.

More than a decade in the making, “101 Things” consists of cringe-inducing footage and still photos of accident scenes, X-rays of strange objects in places they ought not be – and the stories behind them.

It all started 14 years ago when Schotz says he saw in The Post a photo of Julio Castillo, a teen from Queens who impaled himself on an iron spike while trying to scale a fence in pursuit of a baseball.

“It has been one of those weird things that you hang on to,” he said.

For Schotz – who’s known for producing more high-brow medical reality shows for the Discovery Channel (and somewhat less-noble endeavors like NBC’s “Race to the Alter”) – the file he started with Castillo’s photo eventually became the project that airs tomorrow at 9 p.m. begins with this unusual disclaimer: “The people profiled all survived.”

“We have doctors come on to give it credibility,” said Schotz.

“It’s just not a freak show of accidents. What the doctors and the people in this do is give it some form of perspective that let’s you relate to a human. So, because it happened to an individual that you know something about, the story takes on a different bend.

“It still doesn’t lose any of its tabloid appeal,” he adds quickly. “If that’s what [viewers] are into, we’ll deliver that in spades.”

To reach the lofty number of 101 items in just one hour, producers offer details about a handful of stories, but list the rest.

“We have this belief that if you’re covering your face with your hands, then you can’t use your remote control and we’ll get a better rating,” he said.

The show lavishes special attention to freak accidents and natural horrors and then investigates a wide range of self-inflicted woes including the jewel thief who hides a diamond necklace in the deepest darkest place imaginable.