ATV Loading Six Rivers NF 2014

On June 14th, 2014, the Superintendent of a handcrew sustained facial lacerations and received many stitches to wounds on his face after an ATV rolled back on top of him while attempting to load it into the back of a pickup truck by riding it up a ramp. The ATV’s frame landed on his helmet, shattering it, and the shards of plastic caused the facial wounds. The Superintendent was finally able to extricate himself out from under the ATV and call on the radio for help. The crew EMT’s responded quickly. Noticing the severity of his wounds and the mechanism of injury, they called Dispatch for assistance. The closest ambulance was more than one hour away, so they started transporting the Superintendent in a U.S. Forest Service truck to the hospital. The doctors cleaned out his wounds and stitched them up after pain medicine was given. The Superintendent was released to a friend to drive him home.

Driving, Training, Hand Crews, All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Incident