On July 2, 2000, a 17-year-old male volunteer junior fire fighter (the victim), died after his privately owned vehicle (POV) collided with a farm tractor. At 1535 hours, the volunteer fire department was dispatched to a structure fire, and the victim responded in his POV to the fire station. En route to the station the victim was traveling in the southbound (right) lane on a two-lane township road when after negotiating a curve, the victim's POV drifted into the northbound (left) lane of the road. Traveling northbound was a driver on a farm tractor with an attached frontend loader. The victimis POV ( pickup truck) struck the left side of the front-end loader, which on impact entered the windshield and pushed through the A post, forcing back part of the roof to the bed area. The victim was found unconscious in his POV and was transported by a helicopter to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead approximately 1 hour after the incident.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Junior Fire Fighter Killed Responding to Call in His Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) in Pennsylvania
2001
10 pages
Report
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English
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Transportation Safety , Fire fighters , Occupational safety and health , Fatality investigations , Motor vehicle accidents , Pennsylvania , Death , Investigations , Recommendations , Vehicle accidents , Volunteers , Accidents , Fire departments , Seat belt issues , Cause of death , Assessment , Evaluation , Tractors , Vehicles , Privately owned vehicle(POV) , National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH) , Standard operating procedures(SOPs)