April 2, 2009

Construction Worker Rescued at Navy Hospital 

The Rescue Squad’s Day Staff and volunteers extricated a construction worker pinned under a forklift at the bottom of a 25-foot-deep pit on the National Naval Medical Center construction site.  Rescue Squad 741, Medic 741B, and other Federal and Montgomery County units were dispatched at 1136 hours on Thursday, April 2 for an injured person at a construction site. 

They arrived on scene to find the operator of a forklift pinned from the knees down under the forklift.  The forklift had fallen from the top edge of the pit while the driver was operating it.  Rescue Squad 741 called for a second squad (Rescue Squad 741B) for additional equipment and began using airbags, cribbing, and come-alongs in their effort to raise the forklift.  Ultimately, with the help of a tower crane to lift the forklift, the crews were successful in sliding the driver out from under the forklift.  The patient was removed from the pit and transported to a local trauma center. 

This call was the second occasion in the past two months in which both of the B-CC Rescue Squad's heavy duty rescue squads were used on the same incident.

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