My Partner Was Extremely, Traumatically, And Potentially Life Alteringly Injured On Company Time This Week. Seeking Advice, Compassion And Anything Else Y'all Are Able To Provide.

My partner runs social media for a large powersports company (large enough that if this post gets traction there's a chance they'll see it).

She was working out of state this week. She was a passenger in a UTV, alongside her co workers. She was wearing a helmet, and seatbelt. The driver wrecked the UTV and I was alerted by an automated iPhone alert at exactly 5:11pm Wednesday.

We live in another state 5 hours away from the location this happened. So I immediately got in the car started driving and figuring out details as I went.

The driver was never hospitalized and another passenger was discharged within an hour.

She however, is extremely and traumatically injured.

They were in sand dunes. She was laid out with multiple massive lacerations, in sand with a broken femur, broken nose and more for over an hour until an ambulance arrived to drive her an hour and half to a hospital where X-rays and Catscans were taken. It was determined that this hospital could not perform necessary surgery.

She was put on another ambulance, not given pain medication, wounds still wide open, bones still broken with blood in her eyes and driven for 2 and half more hours in excruciating pain to another hospital.

She arrived at this second hospital around 2:30am Thursday morning.

Surgery was done to repair the broke femur, and do an initial cleaning on the open wounds around 10am Thursday morning.

Doctors told us that without her helmet there is zero chance she would have survived.

Without the slightest bit of hyperbole the lacerations on her legs would hit the all time top posts of /r/medizzy if I had a picture of what I briefly saw pre surgery.

Infection is now the biggest concern. There is a second surgery planned for Monday morning to clean the open wounds a second time since she was laying in sand, without medical attention for an hour, then those wounds werent cleaned until 10am Thursday morning.

She may not be able to walk for a LONG time. We are still waiting to even know the full extent of what is needed for the open wounds.

Her company has offered to help multiple times. We allowed them to pay for our hotel stay and have told them that other than that we are focusing on the present moment. Myself and my mother in law are here, trading off sleeping in shifts at this hotel and staying with her in the hospital.

We have signed nothing. We do not intend to.

We both have a healthy distrust of any large company doing the absolute best/right thing for any reason other than to cover their own asses and "protect their assets".

We are not the type to be frothing at the mouth for a payday over anything, but as the reality of this trauma continues to settle in we are also reminding ourselves that WE DO NOT KNOW THE LONG TERM IMPLICATIONS OF THIS TRAUMA YET.

She is a social media manager. She's not Travis Pastrana, she's not Johnny Knoxville she's not Rod Kimble.

She's a single mother who gets paid less than 60k a year to manage social media accounts. She would have absolutely NEVER EVER been in this situation if her job didn't PUT her in this situation.

Furthermore, why wasn't she careflighted out of what was essentially the desert? Why was a social media manager allowed to lie in the desert bleeding, broken and screaming like a military man in a foxhole for hours under the supervision of this company?

Why was she transferred to multiple hospitals in her condition via ambulance WITH OPEN WOUNDS AND NO MEDICATION while under the supervision of this company?

Why was no one at this company able to contact me or provide me with contact info for anyone at the scene?

Why was the only person at the scene who actually came within an inch of death, and may never walk normally again, the one who had to call me, screaming bloody murder, broken and bleeding to tell me where I needed to be?

I realize this probably got more emotional as it went on and I apologize if it was a little tangential. I'm exhausted. I've slept about 6 hours in the last 72. It's been the worst 4 days of my life and I feel selfish even saying that considering I'm not the one in the hospital bed. My legs work.

The bigger point here is, as we are able to slowly separate ourselves from this trauma and focus on next steps, it's clear to us that we need to be absolutely certain we don't allow ourselves to be fucked any more by this than we already are.

My partner enjoys her job, she doesn't necessarily want to lose it and isn't opposed to working from home.

But also we don't want to risk them providing the bare minimum for the next few months, then letting her go, leaving her and I holding the metaphorical sack of life altering, traumatizing dog shit that they are absolutely directly responsible for in every conceivable way.

She's an empath to a fault at times, as am I. But the more we're able to unpack this the more it's apparent that this is a company that is directly responsible for almost destroying the lives of my partner, myself, her child, her mother, her brothers etc.

And as I said before WE STILL DONT KNOW (and may not for years) THE LONG TERM IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THIS TRAUMA.

Which brings me to the real question at hand and the reason for this post:

What's the best next move from us here?

Any help that can be provided here from people more knowledgeable than ourselves could literally be life saving or at the very least dramatically life altering in a positive direction.

We're throwing hope to the wind, or in this case, the Internet, and hoping for the best.

Thank you to everyone in advance.

Once this post is up and approved I'll loop my partner in so she can help with any questions or details I'm not aware of.