OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14388458
ROPPE CORP.
FOSTORIA, OH·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY PULMONARY EMBOLISM
Investigation abstract
On July 18, 1988, Employee #1 was working at the Roppe Corporation where her job involved picking up eight-foot sections of rubber material. She fainted, and wa s taken to the hospital where she died one hour later. The autopsy report stated she had died from a pulmonary embolism that was caused by an acute massive righ t pulmonary artery embolism and that also involved the left lobe secondary pulmo nary artery. Employee #1 was obese, and was pregnant at the time the event occur red.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 25
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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