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.
