- Author
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Title
- NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. Annual Report: 2003.
- Coporate
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH
- Report
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Annual Report 2003,
2003,
10 p.
- Keywords
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fire fighters
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fire statistics
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fire fatalities
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fire investigations
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fire prevention
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injuries
- Identifiers
- traumatic injury fatality investigations; investigations performed by the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program in 2003; causes of death in NIOSH fatal injury investigations by type of department, 2003
- Abstract
- In fiscal year 1998, Congress recognized the need for further efforts to address the continuing national problem of fire fighter line-of-duty deaths, and funded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to undertake this effort, thus creating the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. The overall goal of this program is to better define the magnitude and characteristics of line-of-duty deaths and severe injuries among fire fighters, to develop recommendations for the prevention of these injuries and deaths, and to disseminate prevention strategies. This report focuses on traumatic injury fatality investigations performed by the team based in NIOSH's Division of Safety Research in Morgantown, West Virginia. Traumatic injury investigations include fatalities due to asphyxia, motor vehicle-related (MVR) incidents, electrocution, burns, drowning, and other blunt trauma. A separate NIOSH team, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, investigates cardiovascular-related fatalities. This report includes only traumatic injury fatalities investigated by NIOSH. Investigations performed during the current year may include incidents that occurred in prior years. Comprehensive figures on fire fighter fatalities are available from the United States Fire Administration (www.usfa.fema.gov ) and the National Fire Protection Association (www.nfpa.org ).