Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jayyou ignorant splut! Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Risk of CO Fires Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 89 11:49:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 39 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 471, message 4 of 8 In article kitty!larry@uunet.uu.net (Larry Lippman) writes: > The above attitude of avoiding "embarassment" and "adverse >publicity" still exists. I personally know of an example which rather >shocked me. A few years ago an employee of a contractor accidentally >fell off a truck at the New York Telephone Franklin St. CO in >Buffalo, NY. The employee was knocked unconscious. The security >guard (this is the main CO in Buffalo, so there are full-time guards) >did NOT call 911 for an ambulance, but instead called a *private* >ambulance service which resulted in a significant delay in response as >opposed to 911. The security guards apparently have standing >instructions to call a private ambulance, and NOT to call 911 unless >it is a "dire emergency". Why a private ambulance? Because then >there will be no public record of any accident and no risk of a police >report. Not a good attitude. (paramedic mode on) This kind of thing kills people. That security guard, unless he is an experienced street EMT, has little to no concept of the necessity of getting fast qualified help to seriously injured people. Anyone who is knocked unconscious for any period of time is seriously injured. He needed an emergency ambulance, right then. There are any of a number of serious injuries that can kill within the time it takes to get a non-emergency ambulance there, most of which are not obvious as such. Wouldn't OSHA have something to say about that? I do know that if such a thing were to happen at either of GTE's COs in League City, there'd be charges filed... Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Send richard@gryphon.com your NO vote on sci.aquaria; it belongs in rec.