VIDEO: A doctor performed a field amputation on a worker who became ensnared in a conveyor belt at an iron company in Oklahoma City. The emergency situation occurred Thursday afternoon in the 1500 block of East Reno, near Reno and Martin Luther King Avenue. The worker’s hand became caught in a conveyor belt, suffering extreme injury and could not be freed without an amputation being performed.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma

After years of minimal staffing and low budgets, Hopedale’s fire chief said this week that he has found a way to double the town’s number of firefighters at no cost to taxpayers. “The runs are coming in, the staffing isn’t,” Fire Chief Thomas Daige told selectmen this week, referring to emergency calls that need firefighters and EMTs.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Milford Daily News

As world leaders grapple with how to efficiently and safely deliver COVID-19 vaccines to 8 billion people, the task of building vaccine-administration pods will fall to thousands of local hospitals, clinics, and community centers. There will be no “one size fits all” solution to this challenge; core design elements, based on basic principles of continuous improvement (or lean management), offer a roadmap.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Harvard Business Review - Metered Site

PHOTOS: Four people were injured, including two critically, in a crash during a test drive in Everett Tuesday afternoon. A 42-year-old woman was "driving recklessly" while on a test drive of a Hyundai Elantra with a 38-year-old dealership employee, according to Aaron Snell with Everett Police. The woman sped north and rear-ended a pickup truck.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a commercial building Thursday night in Auburn. Crews were called to the 3800 block of West Valley Highway North. Firefighters said they had to stretch multiple hoses to the roof in order to fight the fire. No injuries were reported as all employees inside the building were able to escape.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle