OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14514939
HEAD,ASPHYXIATED,SEIZURE
Event description
ASPHYXIATION DUE TO EPILEPTIC SEIZURE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was found dead by police in the bathtub of his apartment. The autops y report stated he died from asphyxia due to an acute epileptic seizure brought about by an obstruction of the hydrocephalus c tube from a brain ventricle to hi s jugular vein.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- 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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