Tag Archives: Wood Cribbing

We train for motor vehicle accidents with entrapment but do you train for extrications that involve an object other than another car? A vehicle resting against a utility pole or wrapped around it is a common scenario that we could ran into on a MVA. However, a tree that fell onto a vehicle that was uprooted by the wind in uncommon for most of us.

I was wandering around the Internet and ran across a Canadian Public Safety site that has some good basic information about wooden cribbing. The information below is basic 101 cribbing but it never hurts to review the basics.