Trooper Struck By Vehicle While Investigating Crash on Interstate Highway—Oklahoma

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• Personal Author:
  Lancaster, Jamie L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On January 31, 2015, a 30-year-old Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) trooper was fatally injured when he was struck by a passing motorist. The trooper had responded to a crash involving a tanker truck and was at the scene when the incident occurred. The tanker truck was overturned, blocking the left westbound lane of the interstate, and extending into the median. One additional OHP trooper and two officers from the local county sheriff's office also responded to the crash. The two OHP troopers were standing in a westbound lane upstream of the lane closure in an area that was partially blocked to traffic, with their backs toward oncoming traffic, assessing the scene. At that time, a motorist driving in the westbound lane partially left the roadway, went around a patrol car, and struck both troopers. One OHP trooper died on impact
  
  the other OHP trooper was critically injured and transported to a Level 1 trauma center.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Emergency Responders Law Enforcement Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Clothing Drivers Emergency-responders Injuries Injury-prevention Law-enforcement Law-enforcement-workers Motor-vehicles Protective Measures Surveillance Training Traumatic-injuries

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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/NIOSHLEO201501
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Oklahoma ; OSHA Region 6
• 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, 25 pages
• Contributor:
  Brown, Mike ; King, Jeffrey ; Marshall, John ; Moore, Paul H. ; Vasconez, Kim
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050116
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2017-102865
• 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:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2015/01/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:665d13d289b24ce052292dd2ad40d2c9ec1e2d4dd4e1e30690ee1c111d1a6f8b8a230d11e7c54ad4cf8394eabd079f733516555f8af36fcf2f621650b0971951
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167251/cdc_167251_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 429.14 KB ]