OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14203954
DONALD L CREE DBA
DETROIT, OR·
Event description
ONE EMPLOYEE DIES FROM HEAT EXHAUSTION
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working as a choker setter, on a cable system logging operation. Shortly before quitting time, Employee #1 complained to the supervisor about be ing unable to perform his job. The supervisor instructed him to walk toward the landing area where the crew bus was located. Employee #1 was unable to make it t o the landing on his own and had to be carried by fellow workers. Employee #1 wa s transported to the hospital by ambulance where he died of apparent cardiac arr est.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 15
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 23
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 11
- Task assigned
- 1
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