Description of Incident
The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) published Safety Alert 24-09 relating to a broken stretcher.
A medevac from a vessel required a patient to be transferred to the hospital. As the patient was being moved to a hospital bed, the stretcher cracked into two pieces with the patient on it. The patient was not further injured, but a more serious situation could have arisen had the patient been suffering from a back injury.
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