Preventing deaths and injuries to fire fighters by establishing collapse zones at structure fires

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• Personal Author:
  Loflin, Murrey E. ; Tarley, Jay. ; Lutz, Virginia.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Description:
  DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 2014-120
  
  Fire fighters are at significant risk for injury or death due to structural collapse during fire-fighting operations. Structural collapse often occurs without warning. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends that the Incident Commander establish defensive operations and collapse zones when there is potential for a structural collapse during fire-fighting operations.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational/mortality Accidents, Occupational/prevention & Control Emergency-responders Fire-fighters Fire-fighting Fire-safety Firefighters Injuries Injury-prevention Mortality-data Structure Collapse Traumatic-injuries Wounds And Injuries/mortality Wounds And Injuries/prevention & Control

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• Source:
  Workplace solutions
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Workplace Solutions
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  6 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044198
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ed04f0a5b7c0a69595dbac85931a7558adc515d9bc7ff0c1c241143e9c6ff7d74c76735c1cdfac8fd4fe01c594d0736bbe6f31a51357418e7de41cd0eab1ac6f
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/22468/cdc_22468_DS1.pdf
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