OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #380462507
ERIE CO HOME
ALDEN, NY·
Event description
Housekeeper dies of apparent heart attack
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a head housekeeper, was apparently supervising a housekeeping opera her death were not true. tion involving a flooded basement. The flooding had caused the electrical transf ormers for the elevators to smoke, and the smoke had risen up the elevator shaft s. Employee #1 was performing her duties, which required her being on the second floor when she died. Her death was attributed to arteriosclerotic heart disease , and no mention of smoke inhalation was made in the autopsy. Employee #1 report edly did not have direct contact with the smoke in the transformer rooms, which was not noticeable in the basement except near the elevators. Newspaper reports that said Employee #1 was moving patients from smoke-filled rooms at the time of
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 50 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 448
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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