ORLAND FPD PARAMEDICS DISASSEMBLE MEAT GRINDER AND TRANSPORT VICTIM STILL ENTRAPPED IN SMALL PART OF MACHINE FROM GROCER

    SUN NOV 04 2012 ~TIME UNKNOWN
    ORLAND FPD 
    MEAT GRINDER EXTRICATION
    143RD STREET AND WOLF RD, ORLAND PARK

    MACHINE EXTRICATION: FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDICS PARTIALLY DISASSEMBLED MEAT GRINDER MACHINE AT A SUPERMARKET UNTIL IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE NEXT STEP IN EXTRICATION WOULD CAUSE EXCESSIVE BLOOD LOSS -- A SITUATION BETTER CONTROLLED IN THE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. A FINAL PIECE, WHICH WAS 24-INCHES X 18-INCHES, WAS  REMOVED FROM MACHINE WITH HAND STILL ENTRAPPED IN THE PIECE. VICTIM TRANSPORTED TO SILVER CROSS HOSPITAL IN NEW LENOX. ENG 3, TRK 1, BN 1 FOLLOWED AMB 3 TO THE HOSPITAL.

    AN ORLAND FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC CONTINUED EXTRICATION IN THE ER AFTER DISCUSSING THE CASE WITH ER PHYSICIANS.


    Get updates in your Facebook feed

Blog Archive