OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221409188
VACAVILLE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
VACAVILLE, CA·
Event description
Employee with COVID-19 infection dies
Investigation abstract
An employee had worked as a Substitute Kitchen Aide for a public high school. determined to have died from COVID-19 related pneumonia. Information regarding engineering, administrative and personal protective equipment controls for COVID-19 are not included in the narrative. The employee contracted COVID-19 sometime between September 27, 2021, and September 30, 2021. The employee's last day at work was on September 30, 2021. The employee had been in close contact with a coworker who had taken a rapid COVID-19 test on September 30, 2021, but the test came back negative. On October 2, 2021, the employee began to experience COVID-19 related symptoms and took an antigen test that came back positive on October 6, 2021. On October 19, 2021, the employee had returned to the doctor for chest X-rays. At 8:00 a.m. on November 1, 2021, the employee was found unresponsive in her home and was
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 70 F
- Event type
- 14
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