OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221691942
NORTHSIDE PLANTING LLC
FRANKLIN, LA—
Event description
Employee suffers fatal heat stroke while working in field
Investigation abstract
At 2:00 p.m. on August 5, 2024, an employee was working in direct sunlight in a field planting sugarcane rows. The employee, on his first day on the job, was exposed to high heat and humidity while transplanting sugarcane stalks. The employee suffered a heat stroke and was later pronounced dead in the field.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Event type
- 14
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.