Man falls 12 feet from fertilizer truck with serious injuries, Ringgold VA
Medical EmergencyA man fell about 12 feet from a large fertilizer truck near Kentuck Rd. He had major cuts and significant blood loss but stayed conscious. Emergency services and an air medical helicopter were sent to help him.
Audio|Source: Pittsylvania County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
Okay. The engine 231. Okay. Take on 2.32. That's 56-year-old mail. Copy 278. 278.
00:19
Be out of the air, we'll see. Okay. You have a better script for that? Right. He's 4,300 block of Kentuck Road that was just off the roadway there. 2.32. Copy 4400.
00:44
Cigod 24-1. A.J. 1B3A cross, 40 for 25, interruth. Medic 3, direct. Copy, direct. Okay, direct.
01:13
due to transport places that's fruit. Yeah, I'd be wearing a route to the middle school.
01:21
Seagom, transfer one-two-five.
01:23
One-25. She was arriving Danville-Ear.
01:25
Toil, Toil, Toil.
01:26
Seagom, 232.
01:27
32. 32. 32. Just let the crew union know, we're still on seeing 278 pounds, subject fell about 12 feet off of.
01:36
It's like a big fertilizer truck.
01:37
He didn't have a parking with him, he never lost consciousness.
01:40
Major cuts of both of us, a lot of blood loss this time.
01:43
Still we as conscious as well, we ever met it with A&T back to trucks.
01:47
Okay. Okay. Air Life just called.
01:50
There's 16 minutes out in the air at this time.
01:53
Chopin will be, well we've got less a mile from the 10-R-Prom.
01:59
CCOM, ELZ command.
02:01
C-COM, this is the LZ command grid.
02:03
16 minutes.
02:04
They're in the air now.
02:05
Copy, 16 minutes.
02:06
Engine 231 on CECO.
02:08
Engine 231-0-Sito.
02:09
Go ahead, 2.
02:10
All right, we're going to start advancing toward the LZ, that 231, 231, no, the 15-minute out in the helicopter.
02:16
Copy that, thank you.
02:17
Cicom medic level 232 will proceed down to the helipad at Kentonville.
02:23
1215.
02:24
Ccon 2.40.
02:26
48. In 48.
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N-service. 1215.
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Location mentioned:
Near Kentuck Rd, Ringgold, VA 24586
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