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9 Tractor Fatalities 1990

  • Incident Information:

    9_tractor_plow_fatalities

  • Location:

    Florida

  • Date:

    03/01/1990

  • Incident Type:

    Heavy Equipment

  • Description:

    Under the auspices of the NWCG Fireline Safety Committee, an analysis was conducted of seven fatality events that resulted in nine firefighters being killed. The common factor among these tragedies was the use of tractor-plow units as primary equipment on forest and wildland fire suppression activities.

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