Blackwater Ag Tractor Accident 2014

On September 16, 2014, at approximately 1351 hours, Forestry Technician (Fire) James Tod Adams, while using an agricultural tractor equipped with a side mounted boom axe mower to clear a fire break on the JD Tract of Blackwater NWR in Cambridge, Maryland, sustained personal injury to his lower right leg as the result of a log penetrating the cab through the lower left portion of the front windshield of the tractor. Refuge staff responded to the accident scene, extricated Forestry Technician Adams from the tractor, and transported him to a staging area where Emergency Medical Services administered first aid. Due to the nature of his injuries, Forestry Technician Adams was evacuated from the refuge by a medical helicopter and transported to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland.