Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14540090

COLUMBUS HOSPITAL

Event
HEART, HEART ATTACK, CLEANING
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#100846567
Employer profile
COLUMBUS HOSPITAL
Summary number
14540090
Report ID
830100

Event description

Employee dies of heart attack while stripping floors

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 suffered a heart attack while mopping floors with a scrubless stripp er solution. No occupational hazard, other than simple exertion, was found to ha ve contributed to the employee's fatal heart attack.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 54 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    31
    Event type
    12
    Source
    43
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    14
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

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