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A car with 4 occupants failed to make a curve on the highway along the fenceline of the Steel mill where I work as an EMT/SO. I had 4 injuries including the driver who was unconscious when I first arrived on scene. While they didn't hit our brand new chainlink fence we had just gotten relpaced following a recent wreck in the same location they managed to knock over a couple of concrete posts on the shoulder of the road which were protecting some utilities. The posts were painted with yellow and black stripes and in the photo you can see paint transfer on the side of the vehicle.
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Security Guard/EMT **ME** Date October 14, 2007
Security Post **** Main Gate Guard Shack Time Approximately 2:00am
While on duty at the main gate security desk I was advised by Scale Operator L***** that she was hearing radio traffic on the Shipping Channel that someone was hurt. I tuned a portable radio to Channel 4, the shipping channel, and was immediately notified by the ***Contractor** supervisor that a motor vehicle wreck had occurred in the curve on Hwy 628 along the fence line near Shipping. I told my Security Officer partner, ***** ****, to call 911 and report the wreck while I went to check on any injuries. I got in the Bayou Steel Medical van and as I was leaving from between the scales the ***Contract*** supervisor radioed that people were “hurt bad and trapped in the car”. I radioed SO **** to tell her to notify the 911 operator that we now had a wreck with injury and possible entrapment and to ensure that Laplace Fire Department was dispatched.
As I arrived on the scene of the wreck I saw a car, a Mercury sedan, on the shoulder of the road next to the fence. A male and 2 females were pulling a third female from the drivers seat across the passenger seat and onto the highway. A pickup truck was stopped in the roadway and a young male was trying to help by having the injured passengers sit down and remain calm. The man, who identified himself as a out of area volunteer firefighter on his way to his sisters house, helped me put the injured driver on the long spine board from the medical van, placed a C collar on her and ensured that I had everything under control and help on the way. The bystander then left the scene in his truck.
I placed the driver on oxygen (12LPM NRB) and then checked the other occupants of the vehicle. One female had lacerations to her face from glass. I gave her a 4X4 dressing to help control the minor bleeding and had her sit in the Medical van along the sliding door. The other female passenger complained of chest pain from hitting her chest on the dash. I had her continue sitting on the ground in front of the van. The male complained of pain in his left shoulder with visible deformity. I had him sit on the front passenger seat of the Medical van. I continued to assist all of the patients until St John Sheriff deputies, 2 Acadian Ambulance units and Laplace Fire Department arrived at approx 2:15am and had loaded the patients into the ambulances.
State Police Trooper **** arrived and took statements from Shipping Department and **Contractor** employees who witnessed the wreck. The car was loaded onto a wrecker and I drove to the First Aid/Nurses clinic to swap out my empty oxygen bottle.
At approx 3am I returned to my duties at the main gate security desk.
Signature _______________________________
****ME***,
Security Officer/EMT
Photo followed by report, names removed and replaced with *....
Security Guard/EMT **ME** Date October 14, 2007
Security Post **** Main Gate Guard Shack Time Approximately 2:00am
While on duty at the main gate security desk I was advised by Scale Operator L***** that she was hearing radio traffic on the Shipping Channel that someone was hurt. I tuned a portable radio to Channel 4, the shipping channel, and was immediately notified by the ***Contractor** supervisor that a motor vehicle wreck had occurred in the curve on Hwy 628 along the fence line near Shipping. I told my Security Officer partner, ***** ****, to call 911 and report the wreck while I went to check on any injuries. I got in the Bayou Steel Medical van and as I was leaving from between the scales the ***Contract*** supervisor radioed that people were “hurt bad and trapped in the car”. I radioed SO **** to tell her to notify the 911 operator that we now had a wreck with injury and possible entrapment and to ensure that Laplace Fire Department was dispatched.
As I arrived on the scene of the wreck I saw a car, a Mercury sedan, on the shoulder of the road next to the fence. A male and 2 females were pulling a third female from the drivers seat across the passenger seat and onto the highway. A pickup truck was stopped in the roadway and a young male was trying to help by having the injured passengers sit down and remain calm. The man, who identified himself as a out of area volunteer firefighter on his way to his sisters house, helped me put the injured driver on the long spine board from the medical van, placed a C collar on her and ensured that I had everything under control and help on the way. The bystander then left the scene in his truck.
I placed the driver on oxygen (12LPM NRB) and then checked the other occupants of the vehicle. One female had lacerations to her face from glass. I gave her a 4X4 dressing to help control the minor bleeding and had her sit in the Medical van along the sliding door. The other female passenger complained of chest pain from hitting her chest on the dash. I had her continue sitting on the ground in front of the van. The male complained of pain in his left shoulder with visible deformity. I had him sit on the front passenger seat of the Medical van. I continued to assist all of the patients until St John Sheriff deputies, 2 Acadian Ambulance units and Laplace Fire Department arrived at approx 2:15am and had loaded the patients into the ambulances.
State Police Trooper **** arrived and took statements from Shipping Department and **Contractor** employees who witnessed the wreck. The car was loaded onto a wrecker and I drove to the First Aid/Nurses clinic to swap out my empty oxygen bottle.
At approx 3am I returned to my duties at the main gate security desk.
Signature _______________________________
****ME***,
Security Officer/EMT
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