Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97–0166–2726: International Association of Fire Fighters, Wilmington, Delaware

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• Personal Author:
  Kinnes, Gregory M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On April 11, 1997, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), on behalf of fire fighters from the City of Wilmington Fire Department (WFD), to assess the incident response procedures used during a fire in a high-rise office building on April 2-3, 1997, in Wilmington, Delaware. The IAFF reported that over 200 fire fighters and other response personnel were involved in the incident. In response to this request, NIOSH investigators conducted a site visit to the WFD on July 28-29, 1997. In addition to an opening conference with representative of the WFD and the IAFF, Local 1590, individual private interviews were held with several fire fighters and other members of the WFD who responded to the incident. Several WFD standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other pertinent records were obtained for review. Individual post-incident reports from the line commanders and several other fire fighters were also requested and subsequently reviewed.
• Subjects:
  Fires Occupational Health Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  Fire-fighters-equipment Fire-fighting-procedures Fire Fighters Firefighters Fire Protection Hazard-Confirmed High-rise Building ICS Incident Command System OSHA Region 3 Respirators SCBA Self-contained Breathing Apparatus

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9701662726
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Delaware ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  26 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Cook, Calvin K. ; Herbert, Nichole
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000522
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2000-101767
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 97-0166-2726, 1999 Feb ; :1-21
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9224 - Fire protection - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c39513c3db73c1d4f842e9e5ddd0e0e873af3526b7f07316d50344ba5e85c64b247542a11fc48a41dd2ba79b370287899be2c23139039213eb4c519ee9f0edf8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171020/cdc_171020_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 248.37 KB ]