Both Drivers Perish

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• Corporate Authors:
  Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE) ; University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
• Description:
  One summer's night, A 49 year-old semi-truck driver (D1), pulling a flatbed loaded with salvage cars for recycling traveled north on a three-lane state highway. D1 topped a hill, drove through a right curve when the unit rolled onto the driver's side, slide across the center line and entered a straight stretch approximately half way to the bottom of a hill. As D1's unit was sliding down the hill in the south bound lanes, a 52 year-old semi-truck driver (D2) hauling bottled beverages was traveling south in the straight stretch up the hill. As D1 slide down the hill, D2 tried to avoid being struck head-on and struck the guardrail. D2 was struck by D1
  
  both vehicles caught fire and both drivers died at the scene. To prevent future occurrences of similar incidents, the following recommendations have been made: Recommendation No. 1: Transportation companies should educate commercial drivers on proper load securement. Recommendation No. 2: Transportation companies should require drivers to utilize restraints while operating commercial vehicles. Recommendation No. 3: Electronic stability systems should be mandatory equipment on all commercial vehicles. Recommendation No. 4: Companies should provide new and refresher commercial driver safety training for company drivers addressing driver distraction and including defensive driving techniques.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Education Fires Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development Transportation Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Fire Drivers Equipment-operators Fire-hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 4 Safety-belts Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Seatbelt Training Transportation-industry Transportation-workers Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Trucking Work-environment Work-practices Workers

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE11KY031
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045931
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-104081
• 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 11KY031, 2013 Jan ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3fba9a1ab7ba3b61848af82029064ddbd8f3129e896ae09c8cca0c7e54d692dedd1ecaf311cce20580e34bfa19bf775132850ec7df3c5f6781c73f16f97a3b57
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165074/cdc_165074_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 316.56 KB ]