OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1005354
BUREAU OF HIGHWAY OPERATIONS NYC DOT
B'KLYN, NY·
Event description
Employee dies of cardiac arrest
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:20 p.m. on May 20, 1988, Employee #1, an assistant highway re pairman for the NYC Department of Transportation, Bureau of Highway Operations, was driving a 22-ton asphalt truck (#141FF) eastbound on the Belt Parkway in Bro oklyn, NY. He suffered traumatic cardiac arrest that caused him to swerve off th e road and to collide with a tree and chain-link fence. Employee #1 was transpor ted to the hospital at 2:22 p.m., and pronounced dead at 3:00 p.m.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 814
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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