Contractor burnt by 400-degree connect during Tualatin unit complex

View full sizeTualatin Valley Fire and RescueTualatin firefighters place a executive burnt by a pot of connect aboard a LifeFlight helicopter Monday afternoon.

A thatch executive suffered third-degree browns after he was splashed with 400-degree connect while operative on a Tualatin unit formidable Monday afternoon.

The occurrence happened only after 2:30 p.m. during a Rolling Hills Apartment complex, located at 19355 S.W. 65th Ave., where a group of contractors had been putting connect on a apartment’s rooftops, pronounced Karen Eubanks, mouthpiece for Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue.

They were transporting a pot of connect on a trailer to another building within a formidable when a pot sloping and splashed on one of a contractors, Eubanks said.

The male was taken around LifeFlight helicopter to a Legacy Oregon Burn Center with third-degree browns on 9 percent of his body. The injuries were non-life-threatening, though “extremely significant,” Eubanks said.

– Kate Mather