Fatal Accident Report System

In 1990, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) completed a study of 182 fatal-to-the-driver truck accidents to investigate the probable cause of the accidents. While the study was designed under the assumption that most fatal heavy truck crashes may be related to alcohol and other drugs, it was found that the most frequently determined probable cause was fatigue (12). A 1993 analysis of the Fatal Accident Report System (FARS) also suggested that truck driver fatigue is a contributing factor in about 30% of heavy truck accidents. 

U. S. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Fatal Accident Reporting System 1984 DOT HS 806 919 (February 1986). Chapter 2, p. 1. 

In 1995, the National Statistics Bureau in China reported 49,311 pesticide poisoning cases (accidents and suicides) in 27 provinces, including 3204 deaths. Of these, 15,000 cases occuiTed during occupational pest control activities of which 91% involved OPs and a fatality rate of 0.5% (75 cases). The reporting system was only set up in 1992 and needs improving some areas have not established a reporting system while in other ai eas reporting is limited. It is... 

It would be useful to check these impressions against the official statistics on occupational risk collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), but these are notoriously unreliable. Indeed, the National Research Council, an offshoot of the National Academy of Sciences that reports on public policy issues, found the BLS data inadequate for monitoring the effectiveness of safety programs (Saddler, 1987). There are several problems. First, the data are collected as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) reporting system, which subjects them to distorting incentive effects. Firms are required to maintain logs of fatal and nonfatal accidents, but they have an incentive to underreport this information since it could be used as evidence to support workers compensation or tort claims by workers, and because... 

Abstract The aim of this study was to review the Finnish investigation procedme for fatal accidents and to analyse four actual fatal accidents related to the transport of hazardous liquids, especially to service operations after the miloading phase. Content analysis was applied to identify the accident factors from the investigation reports. The accident factors were classified into two main classes, in which the factors related to safety cultore and safely attitudes were discussed. The accident factors were also considered according to five elements of the work system model. Finally, as in the Finnish investigation procedure, the prevention measures of accidents were presented in condensed form. 

Content analysis was utilised in this research, which proved usable in this kind of study. The method enables processing material (the fatal investigation reports) comprehensively and in depth. The work system framework seems to be suitable for studies of a various kinds related to work. The accident factors were able to be placed in the elements of the work system model, but some difficulties occurred. Many of the accident factors, for example, could have been placed in various elements. However, the original plan was to place one accident factor in only one element mainly, this was fulfilled. One significant addition to this study would have been to consider more explicitly the interrelationship of the accident factor for all five elements. It is clear that the number of investigation reports was limited, but... 

One of the most significant aims of the TOT investigation system is to inform work communities about the fatal accidents. The investigation report provides the important information for work places that operate in the same area or do the same kind of work as done in the investigated case. Thus the investigation and produced report aim for the prevention of similar work accidents. Therefore, it was important... 

Chapter 5 is devoted to safety in offshore oil and gas industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are offshore industrial sector risk picture, offshore worker situation awareness concept, offshore industry accident reporting approach, and offshore industry accidents case studies. Chapter 6 is devoted to case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents, oil tanker spill analysis, and oil spill causes. Chapter 7 presents various important aspects of human factors contribution to accidents in the oil and gas industry and fatalities in the industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are human factors that affect safety in general, categorization of accident-related human factors in the industrial sector, categories of human factors accident causation in the oil industry, and recommendations to reduce fatal oil and gas industry incidents. Chapter 8 is devoted to case studies of maintenance influence on major accidents in the oil and gas industry and safety-instrumented systems and their spurious activation in the oil and gas industry. 

Chapter 9 presents various important aspects of airline and ship safety, including U.S. airline-related fatalities and accident rates, aircraft accidents during flight phases and causes of airline crashes, world airline accident analysis, air safety-related regulatory bodies and their responsibilities, aviation recording and reporting systems, noteworthy marine accidents, ship safety assessment, and ship port-related hazards. 

In her speech Watne positioned herself as a mother who has lost her son. She characterised the fatality as the result of a crime, and thus introduces a moral and juridical frame. The personal and moral orientation persisted when she recounted how Norsk Hydro, represented by its managing director, treated her after the accident. Wathne also contrasted the formal safety systems, with their rules and reports, with the working conditions, as the workers experienced them ... 

Analysis of near misses is an investment in prevention. Experience is the best teacher, but in our case the tuition is paid for by the patients. With close calls, tuition is free (Bagian, 2002). Bagian s words challenge us to mine the rich sources of information we currently have and thereby prevent or reduce the probability of harmful or fatal medical accidents. Content analyses of more than 4,000 safety reports from a hospital system in the Midwest identified patterns predictive of medical accidents. Analysts in the hospital system found that near misses that had not been dealt with were characterized by error-prone conditions, which later reassembled to create medical accidents. This discovery jolted the organization. A question now asked on all safety reports and in aU analyses of critical events analyses is Has this event or a similar event ever occurred before Have you seen this before ... 

Acceptable risk levels cannot be maintained if systems are not adequately maintained. As this chapter was being written, incident investigation reports received by this author indicate that, because of severe expense reductions, maintenance has deteriorated—the result being serious injuries and fatalities. In the excerpt from Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents (Reason, 1997) previously quoted, reference is made to maintenance failures as contributors to the... 

OSHA does not require that you call to report a fatality or multiple hospitalization incident if it involves a commercial airplane, train, subway, or bus accident. Fatahties or multiple hospitalization incidents that occur on a commercial or public transportation system must be recorded on yorxr OSHA injury and Ulness records, if you are required to keep them. 

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