OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #693465
MAINTENANCE,HEART ATTACK
Event description
HEART ATTACK
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 9:00 PM ON FEBRUARY 9, 1987, TWO EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING ON A TR MPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO POTOMAC HOSPITAL, (ONE MILE FROM THE SITE), WHERE HE WAS PR ONOUNCED DEAD AT APPROXIMATELY 9:42 PM. THE AUTOPSY LISTED THE CAUSE OF DEATH AS SEVERE CORONARY ARTERIAL SCLEROSIS. AFFIC LIGHT AT THE JUNCTION OF US 1 AND OPITZ BOULEVARD IN WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD BEEN UP IN THE BUCKET WORKING ON THE TRAFFIC LIGHT. HE COMPLAIN ED ABOUT BEING COLD, SO THE ELECTRICIAN WHO WAS WORKING WITH HIM TOLD HIM TO COM E DOWN, AND THAT HE, THE ELECTRICIAN, WOULD GO UP IN THE BUCKET AND WORK ON RESE CURING THE TRAFFIC LIGHT WHICH HAD COME LOOSE FROM THE GUY LINE. THE ELECTRICIAN SAID THAT HE HE HAD BEEN UP IN THE BUCKET FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES WHEN HE TURNED H IS HEAD AND LOOKED DOWN. HE SAW EMPLOYEE #1 LYING ON THE GROUND SO HE CAME DOWN TO INVESTIGATE. A WOMAN STOPPED BY TO ASSIST, AND CALLED THE RESCUE SQUAD. THE E
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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.