The NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program [2002]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This document has been superseded and the new version can be found here. The United States currently depends on approximately 1.2 million fire fighters to protect its citizens and property from losses caused by fire. Of these fire fighters, approximately 210,000 are career/paid and approximately 1 million are volunteers. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the U.S. Fire Administration estimate that on average, 105 fire fighters die in the line-of duty each year. In fiscal year 1998, Congress recognized the need for further efforts to address the continuing national problem of occupational fire fighter fatalities and funded NIOSH to conduct independent investigations of fire fighter line-of-duty deaths. The NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program conducts investigations of fire fighter line-of-duty deaths to formulate recommendations for preventing future deaths and injuries. The program does not seek to determine fault or place blame on fire departments or individual fire fighters, but to learn from these tragic events and prevent future similar events. Program Goals: 1. Better define the magnitude and characteristics of line-of-duty deaths among fire fighters; 2. Develop recommendations for the prevention of deaths and injuries; and, 3. Disseminate prevention strategies to the fire service. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Emergency Responders Fire Fighters Fire Fighting Equipment Injuries Injury Prevention Motor Vehicles Surveillance Programs
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2002158
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; 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:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022105
• 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, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2002-158, 2002 Aug; :1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:32ea1b1236dbc7a709556e43054140dabd98a027b777d4632b519449ec3c7752f9d32c1dee0371792f68301e895828bc08ee58d71320d80ac6a342b7b056df9b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209834/cdc_209834_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.51 MB ]