OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14444699
ASPLUNDH TREE EXPERT COMPANY
GLEN ALLEN, VA·
Event description
Employee dies of heat stroke while feeding chipper
Investigation abstract
On April 1, 1986, Employee #1, age 20, was working as part of a five-man crew tr imming trees in Richmond, Virginia. He was working on the ground, dragging tree branches the crew had cut to a brush chipper and then feeding them in. By approx imately 11:50 a.m., the temperature had risen into the 80s. Employee #1 became o verheated and collapsed. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronou nced dead due to heat stroke. The 71 in. tall, 255 lb employee had started worki ng for the company the day before the accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 15
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 23
- Occupation code
- 495
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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