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    1. LODDS

    NIOSH Releases Kansas LODD Report

    Sept. 9, 2010
    NIOSH has concluded that a number of factors played a role in the crushing death of a Kansas fire chief earlier this year.
    NIOSH has concluded that a number of factors played a role in the crushing death of a Kansas fire chief earlier this year.

    Chief Stanley Giles, 69, died of traumatic injuries after becoming pinned between a tanker and a pumper being backed into the Linn Valley Lakes Fire Department.

    NIOSH investigators visited the station and interviewed a number of people including the driver of the apparatus.

    They concluded contributing causes included inadequate policies for backing apparatus; inadequate facility space for the number of equipment and inoperative backup warning system and possibly obscured side view mirror.

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