26-Year-Old Emergency Medical Technician Dies in Multiple Fatality Ambulance Crash - Kentucky

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On May 15, 2001, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician (the victim) died when the ambulance she was working in was struck head-on by a motorist. The emergency medical technician (EMT) had been riding unrestrained in the ambulance patient compartment while attending an elderly patient during a nonemergency medical transport. As the ambulance was traveling along a two-lane rural highway at about 55 miles per hour (mph) a motorist operating a pickup truck left of the centerline in excess of 70 mph approached the ambulance head-on. The paramedic driving the ambulance attempted to avoid collision by turning left-of-center
  
  however, the motorist's pickup struck the right-side front quarter of the ambulance. During the collision, the EMT struck the front bulkhead of the patient compartment. The paramedic had been driving unrestrained and suffered severe injury. The motorist and elderly patient also suffered fatal injuries. The EMT and paramedic were airlifted to a local trauma center. The EMT died en route of blunt force trauma to the head and chest. The paramedic suffered multiple serious injuries including a broken leg and recovered after a stay in the hospital.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Emergency Responders Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accidents Emergency-responders Injuries Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 4 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200111
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; 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:
  6 pages
• Contributor:
  Moore, Paul H. ; Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024318
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100578
• 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:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  62 - Health Care and Social Assistance - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2001/05/15
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:82dbe759bfd7a88e3154ed710c2fd02eef15cf629c793850983906fa7982fb308ac9baac13c9d0ac123e091f2894c87d287f2fdcfd6084dcc336f6f5e133116f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167340/cdc_167340_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 409.76 KB ]