- Dates
- 2005-07-18 – 2005-08-14
- Kind
- Accident
- Participants
- Francis Ernest "Ernie" Martin
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Emergency Services Authority
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcareemergency-managementpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On July 18, 2005, Ernie Martin was reported injured in a scaffold fall on Beaver Island. The forum reported Beaver Island EMS treatment and Coast Guard helicopter evacuation to Traverse City, followed by family-mediated updates through August 14.
Evidence limits
The forum is the only source currently attached to this incident. It preserves the contemporaneous community account and information flow, but not an official response record, hospital chart, or verified outcome.
Sources
- Rich reported that Martin fell from a scaffold, was treated by Beaver Island EMS, and was flown to Traverse City by a Coast Guard helicopter; later posts attributed medical updates to family members. The thread is contemporaneous community and family-mediated testimony, not an EMS, Coast Guard, or hospital record, and it does not establish the final medical outcome.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000392
Added 9 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Ernie Martin is injured in a scaffold fall and evacuated by Coast Guard helicopter, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ernie-martin-scaffold-fall-and-medical-evacuation-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Ernie Martin, Sr.-Hurt,” July 18–August 14, 2005..
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