Volunteer Captain Killed in Fire Apparatus Crash While Responding to a Training Exercise – Oregon

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• Personal Author:
  Tarley, Jay L. ; Braddee, Richard W.
• 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 19, 2003, a 53-year-old male volunteer Captain (the victim) was killed while enroute to a hazardous materials (Hazmat) training exercise. The victim was riding in Engine 91(E91) on the front passenger side when it left the roadway and careened into a ditch. After traveling over a hundred feet in the ditch, the Engine struck a tree on the front passenger side of the vehicle. The victim was pinned in his seat by the wreckage, and although extrication was attempted shortly thereafter, the victim died of his injuries while inside the apparatus. NIOSH investigators concluded that, to minimize the risk of similar occurrences, fire departments should: 1. develop and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) on the safe and prudent operation of emergency vehicles
  
  2. ensure that drivers of fire department vehicles receive driver training at least twice a year
  
  and, 3. develop a pre-incident planning program to include deployment of resources.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Automobiles Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Emergency-responders Fire-fighters Fire-fighting-equipment Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 10 Training Traumatic-injuries
• 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/NIOSHFFFACEF200314
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• 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:
  1-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023397
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2003-107303
• 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 F2003-14, 2003 Aug ; :1-10
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2003/03/19
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b20890876423a499aa12f909781a2b8c7118a990163475211206b0d663eb83abe42568199017031a35ea1e7514e87eade558dfd80196da6f13e46c19103c44fa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163826/cdc_163826_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 257.91 KB ]