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This book describes the century-long emergence and battle to protect drivers and occupants of off-road and on-road vehicles from crush-related injuries from rollovers. Deaths and serious injuries have been associated with vehicle overturns that involve tractors, other motorized machinery, automobiles, and small vehicles. It took more than a century to attend to much of this epidemic of death and disabling injury that resulted from these overturns. This book argues that a key factor in this response was epidemiology that reported rollover-related deaths and engineering revisionism that moved responses from “blame the victim” to rollbars to prevent the deaths.

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Melvin L. Myers was a design engineer in his early career regarding industrial lift trucks and motorized compactors and a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service for 30 years. He spent 10 years at the new Environmental Protection Agency and 20 years at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Centers of Disease Control before his retirement in 1998. Concurrently and afterwards, he taught Occupational and Environmental Health Policy as an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Emory University for 25 years (1992-2017), where he was honored as Professor of the Year. He was a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky for seven years, where he was also a principal investigator on a grant. He served the US Surgeon General in her Agricultural Safety and Health Conference in 1992, receiving the Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal, established a NIOSH Office in Alaska, and published the American Public Health Association’s 2015 book, Occupational Safety and Health Policy. He was first engaged in tractor rollover injury protection in 1988, published numerous papers over the years on the topic covering tractors, compactors, lawnmowers, and all-terrain vehicles. He also served as an expert witness on numerous injury cases related to rollover protection.

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