OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221387657

WA317965096 - VIRGIL GAMACHE FARMS INC

TOPPENISH, WA· 2021-07-29T00:00:00

Event: Agriculture, Agriculture Machinery/Vehicle, Driver, Equipment Operator, Farm Machinery, Heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat index, Heat-related illness, High Temperature, Illness, Overheated, Respiratory, Respiratory Tract, Shortness of breath, Shovel, Tractor, Unresponsive, Weather
NAICS: 111940
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345455562
Employer profile: WA317965096 - VIRGIL GAMACHE FARMS INC
Summary number: 221387657
Report ID: 1055350

Event description

Employee dies from overexertion during hot weather

Investigation abstract

At 2:45 p.m. on July 29, 2021, after an employee did not show up at the end of his shift he was found in a field sitting on the floorboard of his tractor unresponsive with breathing problems. Presumably, the tractor had become stuck in the mud and the worker attempted to dig it out with a shovel when the air temperature was 95 degrees Fahrenheit. No further details are available, but the employee subsequently died as a result of the possible overexertion in the heat.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 76 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
999

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