Nomadic safety: job-site mishap inspires emergency innovation.

• Author: Romig, Suzie
• Position: REGIONAL REPORT - Brief article

In 2003, Josh Galindo was part of a group of oil and gas workers who saved a fellow worker after a serious accident, using only a belt as a tourniquet and dirty coveralls as gauze. The team had a required emergency kit, but it wasn't enough. Road and weather conditions in rural Colorado meant medical help was hours away. The injured man, in his mid-20s, eventually lost much of his leg.

As founder of Nomadic Safety in Loveland in 2006, Galindo wants to prevent that type of trauma.

Nomadic Safety leases self-contained emergency treatment trailers for high-risk and far-removed job...