A real lifesaver at ArcelorMittal Coatesville

12.02.2016

Stoner is a process manager in the shipping department at ArcelorMittal Coatesville in Pennsylvania. He was driving near the facility one day, when he saw traffic backed up at an intersection. He rolled down his window and could hear people screaming.

Stoner ran to the scene and found a man who had collapsed. His CPR training kicked in right away. He asked someone to call 911 and then checked to see if the man was breathing. He wasn’t.

“I immediately got down on the body and checked his pulse,” said Stoner. “He had no pulse and his eyes were literally rolled back in the back of his head. I decided right away to start CPR. I got to one minute and the gentleman took a gasp of air and then stopped again for the next three minutes and then finally he began again to breathe on his own as I continued the CPR and at minute number eight the EMTs and the ambulances came up the road.”

Everett Carpenter, chief of security and emergency services, helped train Stoner and many other Coatesville employees in CPR. 

“We provide a number of different CPR courses,” he said. “On Health and Safety Day, we trained just over 100 people. It’s an incredible feeling anytime you’re part of that program or part of the instruction that somebody can take and put to positive use.”

Stoner feels his training is just one aspect of shared vigilance.

“When I took this training years ago, I never ever thought that I would be somebody that would be required to use it. I didn’t really want to have to use it,” he said. “At the same time, I didn’t think about it when I got to the point of doing it and so it ended up being a good thing.”

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