title: Risk of injury by job assignment among federal wildland firefighters, United States, 2003-2007.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Wildland fires cost billions of dollars annually and expose thousands of firefighters to a variety of occupational hazards. Little is known about injury patterns among wildland firefighters.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined non-fatal firefighter injuries among federal wildland firefighters reported to the US Department of the Interior for the years 2003-2007. The risk of disabling injury by job assignment, controlling for demographic and temporal variables, was assessed with logistic regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 1301 non-fatal injuries, slips, trips, and falls were the most frequent injury types and sprains/strains were the most common injury. Engine crew workers suffered a third of all injuries. Handcrews and helitak/smokejumper assignments had increased odds of sprains and strains, which were the most common injury overall.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While some injuries are equally prevalent by job assignment, others vary. Identifying hazards leading to these injuries will be essential to develop prevention strategies.
authors.affiliation: University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, IA, USA.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Britton
authors.forename: Marizen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramirez
authors.forename: Charles F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Torner
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peek-Asa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D061388:Firefighters / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009790:Occupations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012621:Seasons; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult