Sergeant Struck by a Motor Vehicle on Interstate Highway— New Mexico

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• Personal Author:
  Lultschik, Jennifer L. ; Moore, Paul H.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On December 5, 2013, a 47-year-old sheriff's office sergeant was fatally injured when he was struck by a motorist while investigating several motor vehicle crashes on an interstate highway. The sergeant had been dispatched in response to reports of multiple, minor motor vehicle crashes under blizzard conditions. Disabled vehicles were situated on the shoulders of the northbound and southbound interstate lanes, as well as in the median. Officers from state and county law enforcement agencies had responded to the scene. During the response, the sergeant crossed the highway to speak to other officers. He was walking along the northbound shoulder, facing traffic, when a passing motorist lost control of his vehicle and slid onto the shoulder, striking the sergeant. After stabilization by fire and rescue personnel at the scene, the sergeant was transported to a nearby Level 1 trauma center, where he succumbed to his injuries the following day.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Emergency Responders Law Enforcement Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Clothing Emergency-responders Injuries Injury-prevention Law-enforcement Law-enforcement-workers Motor-vehicles 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/NIOSHLEO201401
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Mexico ; 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:
  19 pages
• Contributor:
  Breul, Nicholas ; Loffline, Murrey, E. ; Price, Wilfred
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047408
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2018-100598
• 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:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2013/12/05
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:21efc919aa55daeb615b9c75ee67028f5a9fe6054c11ac72d74e1df46c351b12a0fac51b334259a596bfdda3d6ff9d168adf5094e7af83efd7df7ae2dd78154a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167255/cdc_167255_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 603.99 KB ]