On Wed, 21 May 2003 00:09:32 -0400, Randall Clague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>it, terminal velocity for most shuttle tiles is low enough that you'd >>most likely end up with nothing more than a bruise and an interesting >>story unless you were very unlucky. > >Which, unfortunately, doesn't mean they aren't a casualty. There are >some rules somewhere that specify what level of injury is and isn't a >casualty, but I've lost track of them. The rule of thumb is that if >they need - or don't need but seek anyway - anything more than first >aid, then they are a casualty. I'm happy to say I got this wrong. From the AST workshop last Thursday, "a casualty is a fatality or serious injury to someone on the ground." The reference is 49 CFR 830.2, in NTSB regulations: "Serious injury means any injury which: (1) Requires hospitalization for more than 48 hours, commencing within 7 days from the date of the injury was received; (2) results in a fracture of any bone (except simple fractures of fingers, toes, or nose); (3) causes severe hemorrhages, nerve, muscle, or tendon damage; (4) involves any internal organ; or (5) involves second- or third-degree burns, or any burns affecting more than 5 percent of the body surface." Fatality includes fatal injury, which "means any injury which results in death within 30 days of the accident." BTW, the allowable kinetic energy for a fragment is 11 ft-lbs. I haven't converted that into joules, because I don't know how. To me, a foot-pound is a unit of torque. Anyone want to take a shot at it? -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
