On January 21, 2002, a 26-year-old male volunteer fire fighter (the victim) was fatally injured after being ejected from his privately owned vehicle (POV) as a result of a motor-vehicle crash while responding to a confirmed house fire. The victim was traveling toward the fire station on a county road when, after cresting a small hill, his POV hit an icy section of road. His vehicle left the road, struck two mailboxes, traveled up an embankment, and overturned several times. The victim was ejected through the sunroof and was found lying unresponsive on the road. He was transported via ambulance to a local hospital and was life-flighted shortly thereafter to a regional trauma center where he was pronounced dead the next morning.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Motor-Vehicle Incident Claims Life of Volunteer Fire Fighter in Ohio, June 10, 2002
2002
10 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Environmental & Occupational Factors , Emergency Services & Planning , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Transportation Safety , Fire fighting , Motor vehicle accidents , Accident investigations , Lessons learned , Emergency procedures , Volunteers , Rollover accidents , Ejection , Recommendations , Rural areas , Ohio , Icy road conditions , Fatalities , Single vehicle accidents , Run off road accidents , Emergency response , Fire fighters , First responders