NEW — 9 a.m. Dec. 7, 2010
A logger had to be taken by helicopter from a logging site near Snoqualmie to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a tractor with metal treads backed over him, crushing his leg.
Snoqualmie Fire Department received a 911 call at 10:22 a.m. Dec. 6, but it took about 40 minutes for firefighters to reach the site east of Snoqualmie. The site was located near Southeast Mill Pond Road and Weyerhauser Mill Road.
Firefighters had to travel along “myriad logging roads,” Snoqualmie firefighter Darby Summers said.
The 18-year-old man was conscious and pinned under the tractor when firefighters arrived.
He had been working where logs were being stacked in a “cramped work environment,” Summers said.
The tractor backed up, pulling the man under its treads.
“It was tractor versus human, so we played it safe. So we requested paramedics, which it turned out he needed,” Summers said.
A King County Medic One aid car responded from North Bend.
Paramedics stabilized the man, who was taken by Airlift Northwest to Harborview.
Dan Catchpole: 392-6434, ext. 246, or [email protected].
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