Firefighter fatalities 1998-2001: overview with an emphasis on structure-related traumatic fatalities.

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• Personal Author:
  Braddee R ; Castillo DN ; Hodous, Thomas K. ; Pizatella TJ
• Description:
  This presentation reviews the causes of all firefighter line-of-duty-deaths from 1998 through 2001, and presents National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommendations and discussion specifically regarding the subgroup of fire fighter fatalities related to structural fires. There were 410 line-of-duty deaths among US firefighters during 1998-2001, plus an additional 343 who died at the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. The 410 fatalities included 191 medical (non-traumatic) deaths (47%), 75 motor vehicle-related fatalities (18%); and 144 other traumatic fatalities (35%). The latter group included 68 fatalities that were associated with structures, typically involving collapses, trapped firefighters, or rapid fire progression. Despite modem equipment and training, this group of fatalities has not decreased over recent years. Additional efforts are needed to help firefighters determine when an interior attack must be abandoned before catastrophic conditions develop.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Acids Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Nitrogen Oxides Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Sulfur Compounds Workplace
• Keywords:
  Fire-fighters Fire-fighting Fire-fighting-equipment Fire-hazards Fire-protection-equipment Mortality-data Mortality-rates Traumatic-injuries
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract ; Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; West Virginia
• 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:
  59-60
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024206
• Citation:
  NOIRS 2003: Abstracts of the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, October 28-30, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2003 Oct; :59-60
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:83b03db8b5fe72789f8370f79656622fb152c38ecffd5c1150fbb944ffdcaf6df4f6b5f8100a9c28414e112ec0b9e1a505351634f20fefb155f731b88fa22569
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181184/cdc_181184_DS1.pdf
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