West Carrollton recently honored several employees who took life-saving measures in separate incidents.
Street Department Supervisor Todd Pemberton was approached by a co-worker at the service garage in January who told him he wasn’t feeling well and looked pale.
“That employee said ‘I’m OK, I just need to go home and lie down,’ ” Service Director Rich Norton said at an award ceremony held during city council’s most recent meeting. “When the man twice more declined being examined by medics before he went home, Pemberton insisted, taking “quick, decisive action” by calling 911.
Medics got the man to the hospital. He was having a heart attack, but received treatment in time.
“Todd Pemberton’s concern for his co-worker and persistence that he be examined by trained medical personnel directly contributed to saving the employee’s life,” said West Carrollton Police Chief Doug Woodard. “The doctors that had done the procedure stated that if the employee had not arrived at the hospital when he did and if he had gone home to lay down, he probably would have passed away.”
The second incident occurred in May during one of the city’s scheduled large trash pick-ups and involved Service Department employees Billy Branham, Matt Gustin and Nick Kolb.
The three men were driving from house to house, picking up items that residents had set out for pickup. One crew stopped at a home discarding a large glass table top. Another two-person crew was loading items a couple of houses away.
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