OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1000355
CITY OF GREENSBORO
GREENSBORO, NC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE DIED OF HEART ATTACK WHILE DRIVING TRACTOR
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a laborer for the City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Departmen t was driving a 1987 John Deere tractor Model Number 2355, pulling a mowing deck from one City Park to another. Employee #1 was traveling north on Warren Street and slumped over the steering wheel of the tractor. The tractor crashed into th e rear of an unattended parked car, which hit two additional vehicles. Employee #1 died of a heart attack as a result of ischemic heart disease.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- CARD-VASC/RESP FAIL. (12)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Laborers, except construction (889)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC, NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM (7)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.