Emergency Medical Technician Dies in Ambulance Crash - New York: 2001-12

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On July 13, 2001, a 27-year-old female Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) the victim died when the ambulance she was working in struck a support column for an elevated train track. The victim had been riding unrestrained in the patient compartment while attending to a patient during a non-emergency medical transport. The ambulance was traveling along a two-lane city street when it drifted across the roadway through an oncoming traffic lane and struck the support column. During the collision, the EMT/driver who was also riding unrestrained, sustained minor injuries from contact with the dashboard and deployed air bag. The victim and the patient struck the front of the patient compartment. The EMT/driver and the patient were transported by ambulances to a hospital where they were admitted. The victim was transported by ambulance to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Automobiles
  • Emergency Responders
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 2
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Occupational-safety-programs
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-measures
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-programs
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200112
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Romano, Nancy T. ; Cortez, Kim ; Moore, Paul H.
• Volume:
  2001
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025584
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100579
• 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:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2001/07/13
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2001-12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167306/cdc_167306_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 371.14 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:97e5bb27773bd145d77a47940ac8b8c9b8d028ba0bb50baa70766db785c69abfb20d8687f985a01e87b092478b6024a2856d0b0a75a8b7c081ac12890c2e2032