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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14476584

CPR,HEART ATTACK,ELEC UTILITY WORK

Event
CPR,HEART ATTACK,ELEC UTILITY WORK
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14476584
Report ID
522000

Event description

HEART ATTACK

Investigation abstract

At about 8:30 in the morning, an employee who had just arrived at work was not f eeling well. He told the only other employee on site that he needed to go to the restroom immediately. The other employee was starting an excavation when he not iced that the first employee had fallen from the truck. The second employee call ed emergency medical services on the truck's two-way radio. He then administered cardio-pulmonary resuscitation twice before the emergency services arrived, abo ut 10 minutes later. The first employee died. The coroner listed the cause of de ath as a massive heart attack.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 53 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    5
    Event type
    12
    Source
    43
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    7
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

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