School Bus Driver Crushed While Preparing to Install Tire Chains on Minibus - Alaska

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• Corporate Authors:
  Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE) ; Alaska. Division of Public Health. Section of Epidemiology. Occupational Injury Prevention Program
• Description:
  A 54-year-old male school bus driver (the victim) died while installing tire chains on a 16-passenger minibus. While driving up a steep, icy hill, the driver was having difficulty controlling the minibus, which began slipping backward before reaching the top. The driver stopped the bus, put it in park, and engaged the emergency brake. He disembarked, walked to the back of the bus, and began installing tire chains. The bus began sliding backward and trapped him under the bumper. The bus then rotated clockwise 90 degrees and continued sliding down the hill into an embankment on the south edge of the roadway, crushing the victim between the bumper and the embankment. Several attempts to rescue the victim were unsuccessful. NIOSH researchers determined that to prevent similar occurrences, employers should: 1. ensure that bus drivers receive training for adverse weather and road conditions and follow proper procedures for tasks such as installing tire chains 2. consider equipping buses with studded tires for winter driving 3. ensure that bus drivers are aware of their right to cancel certain routes if adverse road/weather conditions do not permit safe travel.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Bus-drivers Drivers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 10 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-environment Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93AK006
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Conway, George ; Helmkamp, James C. ; Lincoln, Jennifer M. ; Pizatella, Timothy J.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026878
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-235174
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 93AK006, 1993 Jun ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  61 - Educational Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c1b0327a5d0210e5a66c64f77cdd5af6a2e201a6fc0c7bbc66a5a5d747b15e36f47f8c4b1d9604c05d56ab13f8b60db77584292b06ae6c60c26958a380bfbc7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169126/cdc_169126_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 27.41 KB ]