- Author
- Utech, H. P.
- Title
- Injury Statistics and the Design of Fire Fighters' Protective Clothing and Equipment.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Keywords
- protective clothing | protective equipment | injuries | statistics | fire fighters
- Identifiers
- injury frequency and severity rates; nature of injury vs. part of body affected for all injuries; injuries at the fire scene; caustics and toxic substances; average days of disability per disabling injury; striking and being struck by objects; overexertion; falls; contact with high temperatures and hot objects
- Abstract
- Nearly everyone agrees that the fire fighter's protective clothing and equipment can and must be improved. But what kinds of improvements are needed? What are the hazards against which present-day protective clothing and equipment is less than fully effective? These seemingly simple questions are surprisingly difficult to answer. But a recently completed study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has shed new light on the sometimes confusing and contradictory problems of fire fighter injuries.