Officer Struck By a Motorhome While Establishing Temporary Traffic Control on Interstate—Tennessee

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• Personal Author:
  Lancaster, Jamie L. ; Moore, Melanie L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On May 10, 2014, a 25-year-old police officer was fatally injured when he was struck by a motorhome and drug under the trailer it was pulling on a four-lane interstate highway. The officer had responded to a jackknifed and overturned pickup/trailer combination that was blocking an entrance ramp to the interstate northbound lanes. To assist with traffic control, the officer positioned his patrol unit south of the entrance ramp in lane three, and a Tennessee Department of Transportation help truck operator positioned his vehicle next to the patrol unit to block the shoulder and lane four. The officer and help truck operator were standing between their vehicles, near the help truck's driver's side door, when a motorhome pulling a trailer approached the scene in lane three (lane second from the right). The driver of the motorhome reported the speed and volume of traffic in lanes one and two prevented him from moving to the left
  
  as a result, he attempted to drive between the police car and the help truck. The help truck operator saw the oncoming motorhome, yelled to the officer, and ran out of the way
  
  the officer was unable to do so. The motorhome and trailer sideswiped the help truck and struck the officer. The officer was dragged underneath the trailer for 116 feet before the motor home came to a stop. He died at the scene.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Emergency Responders Hazardous Substances Law Enforcement Mortality Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Transportation

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Drivers Emergency-responders Fatalities Hazard Communication Injuries Injury-prevention Law-enforcement Law-enforcement-workers Motor-vehicles Motor Vehicles OSHA Region 4 Police Officers Protective Measures Safety Measures Surveillance Training Transportation Workers Traumatic-injuries Warning Signs Work Operations Work Zone

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles ; Motor Vehicles - Law Enforcement Officers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House) ; Law Enforcement Officers (LEO)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHLEO201601
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Interagency Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; 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:
  ii, 1-18
• Contributor:
  Moore, Paul H.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050688
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2018-100599
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2014/05/10
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5884cd2b54c97c59751336ef653275caef72203915944453c35b1396a173c90545e9004062e3447ef57c28b064a1cc8fa4ab9611e4242ec1cd2ac41bc22765a4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167250/cdc_167250_DS1.pdf
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