Volunteer Fire Fighter Dies in a Tanker Crash – Louisiana

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• Personal Author:
  Berardinelli, Stephen P. Jr. ; Wertman, Stacy C.
• 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 March 28, 2008, a 33-year-old male volunteer fire fighter (the victim) was fatally injured after the tanker truck he was driving left the roadway and overturned. The victim was enroute to a structure fire, took an unfamiliar route, and failed to negotiate a 90 degree curve to the right. The tanker left the roadway rolling onto the driver's side then slid through a ditch into a row of pine trees crushing the cab. The victim was extricated by emergency personnel, air-lifted to a local medical center, and later pronounced dead. NIOSH investigators concluded that, in order to minimize the risk of similar occurrences, fire departments should: 1. ensure that tankers are driven at a safe and reasonable speed
  
  2. ensure that fire fighters are familiar with the location of the roads in their coverage areas
  
  3. consider staffing tankers with a minimum of two fire fighters
  
  4. consider supplying responding units with maps or verbal directions to incident scenes, using computer aided dispatch (CAD) or a global positioning system (GPS) device
  
  5. develop oversight of the preventive maintenance program for fire apparatus. Fire departments and fire service training organizations should consider additional driver training for fire fighters on safe tanker driving and operations. Fire departments and fire apparatus manufacturers should ensure that tankers meet all the requirements of NFPA 1901, Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Age Factors Automobiles Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Age-factors Drivers Emergency-responders Fire-fighters Fire-fighting-equipment Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 6 Safety-practices Surveillance Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - Firefighter:
  Cause of Death: Trauma ; Motor Vehicle: Emergency Vehicle
• Series:
  Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Subseries:
  Death in the Line of Duty Report
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFFFACEF200810
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Louisiana ; 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:
  1-15
• Contributor:
  Wilbur, Mike ; Peterson, Carl E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034397
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2008-113770
• 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 F2008-10, 2008 Aug ; :1-15
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2008/03/28
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5284b3136fc4a1386ad19c5e8987a9d04b90b1e8c0a234c2d61d71d998871d23cc881a1dec72b87ef77bbce964d3b871d9ceb11949c1b7d238a058de283a6b61
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163631/cdc_163631_DS1.pdf
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