The IAFF’s “1990 Annual Death and Injury Survey” marks the most comprehensive compilation of such statistics for care of fire fighters in the history of the IAFF. Results show that career fire fighters suffer job-related injuries and illnesses at a rate that is more than four times higher and nine times more severe than the average for workers in the private industry. Similarly, the rate of line-of-duty deaths among career fire fighters is nearly three times that of workers in the private industry.
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