OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14386668
HEART,HEART ATTACK,CONSTRUCTION
Event description
Employee dies of a heart attack while dragging line
Investigation abstract
At 6:40 p.m. on September 16, 1988, a coworker arrived at the job site to find E paramedics and waited until they came to the job site. Employee #1 died of a he art attack. mployee #1 sitting in his truck. Employee #1 had complained of indigestion probl ems all day. Employee #1, a laborer for Murphy Brothers, a pipeline contractor, was to go down into a ditch every two hours to check a water pump used to keep a bell hole dry during the curing of recently applied coating. The coworker said Employee #1 went down into the ditch to check the curing on the pipe, came out o f the ditch, and began dragging a discharge hose back to his truck. The coworker then heard a noise behind him , and looked back to see Employee #1 fall to the ground headfirst. The coworker, who did not know CPR, called the fire department
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.