Workplace Solutions: Preventing Deaths and Injuries to Fire Fighters by Establishing Collapse Zones at Structure Fires

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Loflin, Murrey E. ; Tarley, Jay L. ; Lutz, Virginia
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Injuries Mortality Occupational Health Safety Structure Collapse Wounds And Injuries

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• Keywords:
  Injuries; Injury-prevention; Accident-analysis; Accident-prevention; Accidents; Traumatic-injuries; Emergency-responders; Fire-fighters; Fire-fighting; Fire-safety; Mortality-data; Surveillance
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: 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. 2014-120, 2014 Apr; :1-6
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Workplace Solutions
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044198
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-105962
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety ; Construction ; Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ed04f0a5b7c0a69595dbac85931a7558adc515d9bc7ff0c1c241143e9c6ff7d74c76735c1cdfac8fd4fe01c594d0736bbe6f31a51357418e7de41cd0eab1ac6f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/22468/cdc_22468_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 686.16 KB ]