OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221426091
INTERURBAN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP (THE RAPID)
GRAND RAPIDS, MI·
Event description
Employee with COVID-19 infection dies
Investigation abstract
An employee had worked as a metropolitan transit driver. The employee last day of work was on December 16, 2021, the same day the employee began to experience COVID-19 related symptoms. On December 17, 2021, the employee called into work sick. On December 20, 2021, the employee tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized. The employee remained hospitalized until he died at 8:43 a.m. on January 3, 2022. Cause of death was cardiac arrest due to acute respiratory failure and pnemonia related to COVID-19.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Event type
- 14
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