Worker loses right index finger in industrial accident, Morristown TN
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Medical EmergencyA worker at Precision Flooring near West 1st North Street lost his right index finger in a machine accident. The patient was alert and there was no entrapment during the incident. EMS responded to the scene promptly.
Audio|Heard on: Hamblen County Public Safety
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03:34
Transcript:
00:00
Fire industrial accident near West First North Street, Morristown.
00:07
Engine 1.
00:28
Pitch 626 are you messing route? Okay 4.
00:33
Medic 1 Rescue, 381, industrial accident.
00:38
Near West 1st, North Street, Precision Flooring.
00:42
See, you've gone, drug.
00:44
NJ1, Connie, NJ1, Connie.
00:47
(number withheld).
00:49
Any one in the route.
00:51
Very, come to respondent.
00:52
Pachy-5-62.
00:55
Today, code 4.
00:56
Okay. Okay.
01:01
I want to think one fine.
01:07
Green County units second caller on the I-81 north of the 20.
01:15
Lake 1, Party 1, Industrial Accident, near West 1st, North Street, Precision Flooring, call numbers are going to be (number withheld), and just (number withheld), 32-year-old (name withheld).
01:27
He lost his pointer on his right hand from a machine.
01:30
No entrapment.
01:31
Bing Rose lost.
01:33
They'll be in the workroom kitchen.
01:38
Is he responding?
01:41
You not calling for base.
01:48
6.6.
01:51
526. 626.
01:54
Can you picture EMS that we're on the left shoulder?
02:01
104. Left shoulder westbound.
02:03
Thank you.
02:05
Rescue is going to be a priority one industrial accident.
02:08
Near West 1st, North Street, Precision Flooring.
02:11
Call number is going to be (number withheld) and catch at (number withheld).
02:15
And there's no entrapment, 30-0, pointer in right hand,
02:19
lost from machine, finger is lost.
02:23
Temple.
02:25
Rescany do you, copy.
02:31
If you want to rescue, people outside door, they'll meet you out there.
02:36
They should have someone out there waiting for you.
02:39
He's fully alert to operative, pretty normal, just sick to his stomach.
02:42
No med history has high blood pressure though.
02:46
One copy.
02:48
No one medic, one wrong.
02:54
Fort, fifty, forty-seven.
03:02
Andrew One's on scene.
03:04
Four. One, that's one.
03:05
Second one.
03:17
Can't rescue.
03:23
104. Rescue need copy.
03:28
Rescue, copy direct.
03:29
Rescue cancelled.
03:30
Return to service.
03:33
104, (number withheld).
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Location mentioned:
W 1st N St, Morristown, TN 37814
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