Off-duty Career Fire Fighter Dies and Another Off-duty Career Fire Fighter Is Injured After Being Struck by a Truck While Assisting at a Highway Traffic Incident – Florida

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• Personal Author:
  Tarley, Jay L. ; Romano, Nancy T. ; Berardinelli, Stephen P. Jr.
• 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 June 8, 2002, a 26-year-old male career fire fighter (the victim) died and another career fire fighter was injured when they were struck by a tractor-trailer while they were assisting at the scene of a traffic incident. Both the victim and the injured fire fighter were off-duty, and they had stopped to aid a motorist who was trapped in an overturned vehicle in the median of a highway. Several other passersby, including a physician, an emergency medical technician (EMT) and two other civilians, had also stopped to aid the trapped motorist. Heavy rain was falling, and within minutes a tractor-trailer swerved into the median to avoid traffic, striking all of the rescuers. The victim and the physician were pronounced dead at the scene, and the other fire fighter suffered a broken leg. NIOSH investigators concluded that, to minimize the risk of similar occurrences, fire departments should: 1) develop SOPs for the response of off-duty fire fighters in their privately owned vehicles (POVs) to interstate highway incidents.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Firefighters Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Fire-fighters Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries
• 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/NIOSHFFFACEF200235
• 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:20024730
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2004-104814
• 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 F2002-35, 2004 Mar ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2002/06/08
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2b701be20e65398e24bc75d7815fd718c2e7b1979e4c6b2f1e7d13f36dff2aa5d39b797983d310cf7be20b6223ae6d690a32cfb433eb42069bcfe247ddc1762c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163778/cdc_163778_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 325.33 KB ]