OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #521021
HEART,CARDIAC ARREST
Event description
Employee dies of heart failure
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 collapsed in a work area after completing just one week of employmen t with this company. He died of mitral valve prolapse leading to heart failure. Although his job entailed the granulation of various regulated pharmaceutical dr ugs, the county coroner could not find a relation between these specific drugs a nd the mitral valve prolapse; therefore, the county coroner termed the employee' s death as natural.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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