You are at the training grounds, moving through some hoseline deployment evolutions. It’s a beautiful day, and everyone is enjoying the opportunity to get some hands-on training completed. The training division has created timed evolutions, and it’s become somewhat of a competition between adjacent companies.
As your crew starts its last drill, one of your newer firefighters aggressively pulls on the hose pack to clear the hose bed. You watch as his hands slip off the hose pack, and he falls, tumbling to the pavement. He lays there for a minute, holding his elbow, and you immediately run over to see if he is OK. He said when he caught himself, he felt his elbow pop, and now he is in intense pain. His fall was made all the more awkward by the full turnout gear and SCBA worn for the drill. You feel horrible as the crews from both companies start to take care of him. It was supposed to be a fun evolution, with a little competition to keep things interesting. How could this happen?