Schroeder et al classified the types of injury that can occur when a person is caught in a winch on a shrimp boat. The authors are from the University of Texas at Galveston.
Type
Body Part Injured
Kinds of Injury
1
entrapped body part
fracture, amputation, crush or degloving
2
proximal to the entrapped body part
transverse fracture of long bone proximal to entrapment
3
twisting type injury due to entrapped clothing
spiral or oblique fracture, amputation, tourniquet-like vascular compression
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