Forest Ranger/Fire Fighter Drowned after Catastrophic Blow-out of Right Front Tire – Florida

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• Personal Author:
  Frederick, Linda J. ; Lutz, Virginia
• 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 3, 2004, a 40-year-old male forest ranger (the victim) died after he lost control of the brush truck he was driving to a controlled burn. The truck experienced a catastrophic blow-out of the right front tire, left the road, struck a culvert and overturned. It came to rest on its roof in a ditch filled with approximately 2 feet of water. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. NIOSH investigators concluded that to minimize the risk of similar occurrences, fire management agencies and fire departments should: 1. provide driver training as often as necessary to meet the requirements of NFPA 1451. Training should incorporate specifics on maintaining vehicle control when a rapid loss of tire pressure (blowout) occurs
  
  and, 2. as part of the apparatus maintenance program, ascertain the age of tires and impose time restrictions for usage according to manufacturers' specifications and guidelines. Although it is unclear if the following contributed to this incident, fire management agencies and fire departments should consider implementing the following recommendation based on prudent safety considerations 1. ensure that vehicles meet the requirements of NFPA 1901 and NFPA 1906 and do not exceed their load-carrying capacity.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Emergency-responders Fire-fighters Fire-fighting-equipment Injuries Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 4 Training Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - Firefighter:
  Cause of Death: Trauma ; Motor Vehicle: Emergency Vehicle ; Trauma: Excess / Surplus
• Series:
  Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Subseries:
  Death in the Line of Duty Report
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFFFACEF200415
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026968
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-107481
• 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 F2004-15, 2005 Jun ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2004/03/03
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:284f2491b706b9f672103438d30b5a1fa4cf11a3c15c2aa03e6eb4126708ecfab93bc3d356b380476ebd26ab9b72d7143559e0a6c7110a1cce16ac998232291c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163733/cdc_163733_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.03 MB ]