Massachusetts Newspaper Girl Dies After Being Struck By a Jeep While Delivering Her Route From a Bicycle

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  On May 5, 1994, a twelve year old, female news carrier was fatally injured when she was struck by a jeep while delivering papers from her bicycle. The girl, who was not wearing a helmet, had just made a delivery and was coming out of the customer's driveway when she was struck. Although the customer did not witness the incident, she heard the collision, and immediately called emergency services. Rescue personnel and the police arrived within minutes of the collision. The youth was treated for massive head and other injuries, then driven by ambulance to another location where she was airlifted to a metropolitan hospital. She was pronounced dead at the hospital one hour following the incident. In order to prevent future similar occurrences, the Massachusetts FACE Program recommends that employers: 1. Require all carriers delivering from a bicycle to wear an approved bicycle helmet
  
  2. Give serious consideration to the safety of news carriers by taking into account traffic patterns and the age of carriers when making route assignments
  
  3. Hold periodic (monthly or quarterly) safety meetings for news carriers at the district or community level.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Automobiles Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Safety Management Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Age-factors Bicycles Children Drivers Injuries Injury-prevention Newspapers OSHA Region 1 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-helmets Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles ; Youth
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94MA016
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028428
• 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 94MA016, 1994 Sep ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  44-45 - Retail Trade - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:65c2a3f2d14f89a7283492e763587d482f70397a882d5bddb7dc3505f3d0acfccfa7c6bc7e287752660fd314c13a3e3f04655c7258f44354fb171405d4d9c0c5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166642/cdc_166642_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 115.55 KB ]