Man injured with burns in industrial accident, Fort Wayne IN
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, a 45-year-old man suffered partial thickness burns on about 20% of his body at work after a steel-cutting accident. He is alert and breathing on his own. EMS treated him with sterile burn sheets and pain medication and is transporting him to the hospital, about 20 minutes away.
Audio|Heard on: Huntington City and County Police and Fire
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01:34
Transcript:
00:00
Parkview Regional, this is Steve McKenney Squad 3 on North House 1.
00:02
Mark for Regional, this is Stephen Kennedy Squad 3 on North House 1.
00:14
Steven, this is the regional.
00:16
Go ahead.
00:18
Regional, I'm probably about 20 minutes out for the 45-year-old male.
00:22
He has about 20% of his body with partial thickness burns.
00:27
He's at his workplace today.
00:29
He's going to apply a cutter cutting steel when one of the sparse sweater on basically flash-combusted left him with partial thickness.
00:42
burns all over his chest,
00:45
round his right cheek, left cheek,
00:48
his chin.
00:49
I didn't see any burns in the oral barracks.
00:52
He's alert-oriented, GCS 15,
00:55
maintaining his own airway right now.
00:57
East 9-S-73,
00:59
got a restatory rate of 21, cabinography of 38, 100% of repair.
01:03
Low pressure 177 over 112.
01:07
He went ahead and covered those burns.
01:09
with a sterile burn seat, keeping them warm.
01:15
He's got an 18 gauges at his left D.C.
01:17
with a lot on.
01:18
He's got a 20 gauge on his right forearm.
01:20
I'm giving a stainless bullet right now.
01:23
For his pain, originally he was saying, he gave him 100 mics of fentanyl, probably about 10 minutes ago.
01:29
Now he's seen his pain, about a 4 out of 10.
01:32
He's got further, we'll be there about 20 minutes.
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Location mentioned:
Parkview Plaza Dr Entrance 1, Fort Wayne, IN 46845
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