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Emergency Responder Injuries and Fatalities: An Analysis of Surveillance Data

Overview The emergency response community represents a significant population of workers exposed to a particularly intense and variable hazard environment in the course of their work activities. This paper focuses on firefighting, law enforcement, and emergency medical services personnel. In the United States, approximately 1,100,000 firefighters, 600,000 patrol and investigative law enforcement officers, and 500,000 emergency medical service responders answer calls for assistance and service that result in significant numbers of occupational injuries and fatalities.

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Publisher	RAND	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Physical Infrastructure Protection

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