Firefighter Injuries on the Fireground

Report: NFPA's "Firefighter Injuries on the Fireground"
Author: Richard Campbell and Joseph L. Molis
Issued: November 2020

Report

This report reviews injuries experienced by US firefighters on the fireground for the five-year period from 2014 - 2018.

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In 2014-2018, there were an estimated average of 25,590 fireground injuries experienced each year by U.S. firefighters.
The majority of firefighter injuries were sustained by career firefighters (82% of the total), with volunteer firefighters experiencing 18 percent of injuries. Female firefighters accounted for just four percent of injuries.
Exposure to hazards and overexertion or strain were the two leading causes of injury, together accounting for over half of the injuries (51 percent).Other leading causes of injury were slip/trip, contact with object, fall and struck or assaulted.
Structure fires were associated with the largest share of firefighter injuries (84 percent).

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