Workplace Solutions: Preventing Deaths and Injuries of Fire Fighters Working Above Fire-Damaged Floors

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Merinar, Timothy R. ; Tarley, Jay L. ; Koedam, Robert E.
• Description:
  Fire fighters are at risk of falling through fire-damaged floors. Fire burning underneath floors can significantly degrade the floor system with little indication to fire fighters working above. Floors can fail within minutes of fire exposure, and new construction technology such as engineered wood floor joists may fail sooner than traditional construction methods. NIOSH recommends that fire fighters use extreme caution when entering any structure that may have fire burning beneath the floor. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  Tim Merinar, Jay Tarley, Robert Koedam.
  
  "CDC workplace safety and health."
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. [3]).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety Wounds And Injuries
• Keywords:
  Fire-fighters; Fire-fighting; Fire-hazards; Fire-safety; Emergency-responders; Traumatic-injuries; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Accident-prevention; Accidents; 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. 2009-114, 2009 Feb; :1-4
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Workplace Solutions
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035051
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2009-106353
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e6553b7ec5084c881c2d295cb7368a570827ac8b1042424aae7363687031f273ac0b28c11a458384633c4b64c52581c05bcd49634cc007998f972b2b1f4dbe59
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5274/cdc_5274_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.88 MB ]