Farm Accident injures one on Blank Road

At 11:13 AM on Saturday, November 10, Ambulance 4-9 was dispatched to a farm in the 100 block of Blank Road in Salisbury Township for an injured person. Upon further investigation by Lancaster County 911, it was determined that the nature of the emergency was indeed a farm rescue; the rescue assignment was then dispatched at 11:18 adding Engine 4-9-1, Engine 4-9-2, Gap Rescue 4-2, and Brandywine Hospital Medic 93-4 to the assignment.\
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The dispatched units all responded within minutes. Engine 4-9-1 and Ambulance 4-9 arrived on the scene simultaneously at 11:23 and confirmed one male with his leg trapped in the wheel of a fore cart. The farmer was riding the fore cart, pulling a tank manure spreader with a team of four mules, when he fell off of the cart and got his leg entangled in the wheel mechanism. \
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Ambulance 4-9 initiated patient care, while Engine 4-9-1 cribbed the fore cart to prevent further movement and began extrication. Engine 4-9-2 arrived on the scene, and sent manpower to the scene. Rescue 4-2 arrived on the scene and laid out a compliment of hand tools and hydraulic rescue tools for the extrication, and assisted with extrication. Medic 93-4 arrived and began advance life support care on the patient. \
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Crews from White Horse and Gap worked together with farm equipment specialists as a team to disassemble the wheel mechanism and remove the injured man’s leg from the cart, marking extrication compete at 11:48 AM. The injured man was transported to a local trauma center by Ambulance 4-9 and Medic 93-4. Rescue 4-2 and both 4-9 engines cleared the scene, with the last units clearing the scene at 12:22 PM\
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