Incident-level risk factors for firefighter injuries at structural fires

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1059-1063

  Fabio, Anthony ^a   Ta, Myduc ^b   Strotmeyer, Stephen ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Schmidt, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Emergency Systems Planning   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; INJURY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0036847087     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-200211000-00012     Document Type: Article

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