firemanpat2910
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Had an emergency page out today. Man stuck in piece of farm equipment. I am the chief of the VFD. I was at my day job, about 10- 15 miles away. But I responded "non emergency" and monitored the radio on my there. Upon arrival victim was still pinned but progress was being made. I do not know the name of the implement I will try and google it later and see if I can post a pic of exact model. But it was a "sodder"
cuts the square pieces and puts them on a pallet? had a conveyor with a steel mesh belt that must move the cut pieces up to the pallet? at least that's how it looked. Well ant way supposedly there are two workers on the machine one drives the tractor, and the other works the pallets, what ever that means. Well today the second worker got his foot caught in the steel mesh belt and it pulled him knee deep ito the machine before diver could stop it. machine had large maybe 4: diam serrated type rollers with maybe a 1.5" cold roll steel shaft center that went through bearings on outter frame of machine. Leg was trapped between 4 such rollers, two steel mesh belts and a couple, maybe 3, 2"square steel braces. We used the spreaders from our rescue tools to start bending the rollers apart, then we would crib with 4x4 wood wedges, then move deeper down, and get another bite. It was working but slow. just as I arrived a local heavy repair truck pulled in with a cutting torch, once the 1.5 cold roll shafts were cut the spread was much easier and we got patient out fairly quickly to the waiting ambulance. During our clean up/ putting tools away time I noticed a socket set, and non Fire dept crowbars and such. The other workers had tried to dismantle the machine before calling us, so as to not damage the machine, when we get back to station the sod farm owner comes pulling up in his car wanting to know why we damaged his machine, and to complain that his 20,000 dollar machine was not gonna be able to make him any money today. I said we did the least damage we could, he said we should have dismantled it piece by piece not cut with torch. at the end he did finally ask how bad his worker was hurt, but only after complaining again about no work today.
cuts the square pieces and puts them on a pallet? had a conveyor with a steel mesh belt that must move the cut pieces up to the pallet? at least that's how it looked. Well ant way supposedly there are two workers on the machine one drives the tractor, and the other works the pallets, what ever that means. Well today the second worker got his foot caught in the steel mesh belt and it pulled him knee deep ito the machine before diver could stop it. machine had large maybe 4: diam serrated type rollers with maybe a 1.5" cold roll steel shaft center that went through bearings on outter frame of machine. Leg was trapped between 4 such rollers, two steel mesh belts and a couple, maybe 3, 2"square steel braces. We used the spreaders from our rescue tools to start bending the rollers apart, then we would crib with 4x4 wood wedges, then move deeper down, and get another bite. It was working but slow. just as I arrived a local heavy repair truck pulled in with a cutting torch, once the 1.5 cold roll shafts were cut the spread was much easier and we got patient out fairly quickly to the waiting ambulance. During our clean up/ putting tools away time I noticed a socket set, and non Fire dept crowbars and such. The other workers had tried to dismantle the machine before calling us, so as to not damage the machine, when we get back to station the sod farm owner comes pulling up in his car wanting to know why we damaged his machine, and to complain that his 20,000 dollar machine was not gonna be able to make him any money today. I said we did the least damage we could, he said we should have dismantled it piece by piece not cut with torch. at the end he did finally ask how bad his worker was hurt, but only after complaining again about no work today.
