OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #630186
CHAMPALE, INC.
TRENTON, NJ·
Event description
Employee dies of cardiac arrest
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a security guard, was making his rounds on the night shift when he apparently suffered a heart attack. At approximately 6:00 a.m., a coworker, a se curity guard for the next shift, found him dead in a fermenting cellar near the stairway entrance to the cellar. Autopsy results show that Employee #1 was intox icated with alcohol. His cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest due to hear t disease. Other adverse conditions may have contributed to Employee #1's death; for example, undetermined levels of carbon dioxide, considered high by other em ployees, were noted at the site, and the stairway that Employee #1 may have used was slippery and uneven.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 69 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0530
- Task assigned
- 1
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