Junior Volunteer Fire Fighter Is Killed While Responding to a Brush Fire with an Intoxicated Driver – Wyoming

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• Personal Author:
  Frederick, Linda J. ; Guglielmo, Carolyn
• 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 May 22, 2003, a 16-year-old female junior fire fighter died after the tanker truck she was riding in overturned while responding to a brush fire. The tanker truck drifted off the roadway causing the driver to lose control of the truck and to overturn. The driver crawled out a window. The victim was ejected and trapped beneath the front passenger door. She was extricated by emergency personnel and transported to a county hospital where she was pronounced dead upon arrival. NIOSH investigators concluded that, in order to minimize the risk of similar occurrences, fire departments should: 1. adopt the International Association of Fire Chief's Zero-Tolerance Policy for Alcohol and Drinking to prohibit the use of alcohol by members of any fire or emergency services agency/organization at any time when they may be called upon to act or respond as a member of those departments. Departments should develop written policies and have procedures in place to enforce this policy
  
  2. develop and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) that require mandatory use of seatbelts in all vehicles
  
  3. develop or revise existing SOPs to specify permissible and non-permissible tasks and activities for youth members participating in junior fire service programs
  
  4. provide training to driver/operators as often as necessary to meet the requirements of NFPA 1451, and incorporate specifics on rollover prevention in standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  
  5. select and utilize only the safest drivers to operate emergency vehicles
  
  and, 6. use caution when retrofitting non-fire service apparatus to serve as tankers, and, when this a necessity, ensure that the vehicle does not exceed its load-carrying capacity and meets the requirements of NFPA 1901 Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Automobiles Emergencies Emergency Responders Firefighters Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Emergency-responders Emergency-response Fire-fighters Fire-fighting Injuries Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 8 Traumatic-injuries
• 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/NIOSHFFFACEF200320
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Wyoming ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025451
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100141
• 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 F2003-20, 2004 Sep ; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2003/05/22
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2ad480c0c727914a31c8eab292605473a1f843021c62a7100cbef5bdf08d9ed9588ef2f88dd5d0be242ba3c4da91e3dab7e6e99de863bb1b756f4e827216c0e8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163755/cdc_163755_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 379.76 KB ]