Career Fire Fighter Struck and Killed While Working a Crash Scene on Ice Covered Interstate Overpass – Texas

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• Personal Author:
  Miles, Stephen T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Description:
  Death in the Line of Duty…a Summary of a NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation
  
  On February 10, 2014, a 40-year-old male career fire fighter died after being struck by a civilian's vehicle and falling from an overpass. The fire fighter was one of four fire fighters that were working a crash scene involving multiple vehicles on an ice covered interstate bridge and overpass. The fire fighter was assisting a stranded motorist and crossed over the protective barrier where he was struck by another vehicle and fell 56 feet from the bridge onto the underpass below. Fire fighters rushed to his aid and performed several life saving measures, including CPR. He was transported by a fire department rescue unit to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased upon arrival. Contributing Factors: 1. Weather conditions (ice)
  
  2. Scene/Traffic Management
  
  3. Operating in unprotected zone (Situational Awareness)
  
  4. Inattentive motorist. Key Recommendations: 1. Fire departments should ensure that officers, fire fighters and emergency responders are properly trained in highway incident safety procedures. 2. Fire departments should ensure that officers, fire fighters and emergency responders are trained in situational awareness, risk assessment, fire fighter and command safety responsibilities. 3. Municipalities and local authorities having jurisdiction should develop strategies for pre-treating bridges, overpasses and roadways subject to early freezing.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Emergency Responders Environmental Health Firefighters Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Emergency-responders Environmental-factors Fire-fighters Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 6 Safety-practices Surveillance Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - Firefighter:
  Cause of Death: Trauma ; Motor Vehicle: Struck-by
• Series:
  Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Subseries:
  Death in the Line of Duty Report
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFFFACEF201406
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Texas ; OSHA Region 6
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-31
• Contributor:
  Tippett, John B., Jr.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046650
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-105666
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE F2014-06, 2015 Aug ; :1-31
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2014/02/10
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8a281a295e79214e95b4bfb36484de8f784f66981bced1ed955c41c1d74393dc8976bac3a210721eda8c5b4b4f066593b3650bd688511a2136b8e2d6e523a975
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163414/cdc_163414_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.41 MB ]