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U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth District
  United States Coast Guard
News Release Date: July 19, 2009
Contact: Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios
Phone: (907) 321-4516

Coast Guard medevacs man with injured finger

JUNEAU, Alaska -The Coast Guard safely medevaced a crewmember suffering a finger injury aboard the motor vessel Horizon Anchorage, a 678-foot freighter homeported in Philadelphia, July 19, 2009, 170 miles southwest of Sitka. Engelbrecht was medevaced by the Coast Guard after partially severing his finger working on a diesel engine. (Coast Guard video courtesy of Coast Guard Air Station Sitka)

Editors Note: Coast Guard video courtesy of Air Station Sitka

JUNEAU, Alaska - Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis Peck walks John Engelbrecht to local emergency medical services. Engelbrecht was medevaced by the Coast Guard after partially severing his finger working on a diesel engine.  JUNEAU, Alaska - Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis Peck shakes hands with John Engelbrecht as he hands him over to local emergency medical services for further care. Engelbrecht was medevaced by the Coast Guard after partially severing his finger working on a diesel engine.

Editors Note: Coast Guard imagery courtesy of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios

JUNEAU, Alaska -The Coast Guard safely medevaced a crewmember suffering a finger injury aboard the motor vessel Horizon Anchorage, a 678-foot freighter homeported in Philadelphia, today, 170 miles southwest of Sitka.

John Engelbrecht, a 50-year old male from Bainbridge Island, Wash., reportedly crushed and partially severed his right index finger while working on a diesel engine and his finger got caught in one of the gears.

The Coast Guard command center in Juneau received the call from the master of the vessel Horizon Anchorage at 12:03 p.m. and launched a MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka at 12:32 p.m.

The rescue helicopter arrived on scene and safely hoisted Engelbrecht at 2:45 p.m. 

"They did a great job," said Engelbrecht.  "They demonstrated professionalism and made the hoist a smooth transition."

The rescue helicopter transported Engelbrecht to Juneau arriving at 5 p.m. where local emergency medical services were waiting to take Engelbrecht to Bartlett Regional Hospital for further medical care.

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