Firefighter's health and health effects of the World Trace Center collapse

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• Personal Author:
  Banauch G ; Kelly KJ ; Prezant DJ ; Weiden MD
• Description:
  Firefighters are exposed to extremely hazardous environments. In addition to inhalation of products of combustion and the risk of fatal burn injuries, firefighters suffer a high rate of traumatic injury and death. Over the 3-year period of 2000 to 2002, there were an estimated 1.1 million firefighters with 102 deaths reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, giving a death rate of 9.3 per 100,000 compared to the national average for the U.S. work force of 4.2 per 100,000. These statistics do not include the special circumstances of the World Trade Center (WIC) collapse on September 11, 2001, in which an additional 343 firefighters from the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) died. This chapter will review the general hazards of this occupation and describe in detail the medical consequences of the WTC collapse. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Burns Carcinogens Chemistry Dust Emergency Responders Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Firefighters Fires Lung Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Chemical-composition Chemical-properties Dust-exposure Dusts Emergency-responders Environmental-hazards Exposure-levels Fire-fighters Fire-fighting Fire-hazards Gases Hazards Injuries Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Particulates Pulmonary-function Pulmonary-system Pulmonary-system-disorders Rescue-workers Respiratory-system-disorders Risk-factors Traumatic-injuries

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• ISBN:
  9780781762991
• Publisher:
  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  477-490
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046295
• Citation:
  Environmental and occupational medicine, 4th edition. Rom WN, Markowitz SB, eds. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006 Dec; :477-490
• Editor(s):
  Rom WN; Markowitz SB
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  New York City Fire Department
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040701
• Source Full Name:
  Environmental and occupational medicine, 4th edition
• End Date:
  20110630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d263e785e255927b19d596ad431fb4ab8078d296fc32007dc18025271676bdce50fc7a293c2a38a3030841a96281905516741d71de6947a55575b13144f0e979
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201398/cdc_201398_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.14 MB ]