CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — When a normal day quickly turned into a life-or-death situation for a York man working in Centre County, minutes mattered.
Thankfully, a dedicated team answered the call and he’s now thanking the heroes who saved his life. Timothy Richmond was working at a job site in Snow Shoe on March 9. What seemed to be an average day changed in seconds.
A hydraulic unit blew and a 4″ by 2″ hydraulic fitting shot through his abdomen below his rib cage and went out his back.
“The projectile was a piece of metal that fits onto this end weighing approximately eight ounces that went through him, sort of like a big shotgun blast,” Acute-Care and Trauma Surgeon at Penn Highlands DuBois Philip S. Vuocolo said.
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Co-workers immediately began doing what they could as 911 was called. However, due to conditions, Richmond couldn’t be flown. An ambulance picked him up and met a trauma team from Penn Highlands Dubois on an exit.