OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14476584
CPR,HEART ATTACK,ELEC UTILITY WORK
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
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#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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