OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #785089
HEART,CPR,MIGRANT FARM WORKER,AGRICULTURE,CARDIOVASC DISEASE
Event description
Cherry picker dies of arteriosclerotic heart disease
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a 63-year-old migrant worker with a history of diabetes, hypertensi erexposure. A joint Department of Agriculture/APD inspection found no evidence t o support this allegation. Another worker from the farm, who had been working wi th Employee #1 the morning he died, was tested for RBC cholinesterase eight days after the death and was found to be within the normal range (0.67 ref. 0.5-1.0 ph units/hr). on, and congestive heart failure, woke up and told his wife he was not feeling w ell. He went to the orchard and began picking cherries. At about 6:15 a.m., he c omplained of chest pains, sat down in the orchard, and then slumped over. CPR wa s attempted by those present and carried on by EMTs from responding ambulance cr ews. Employee #1 did not respond and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was tr ansported to a funeral home in Dallas and then to California for burial. There w as no autopsy. Ten days after his death, the Oregon State Accident Prevention Di vision received a complaint alleging that Employee #1 had died of a pesticide ov
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 63 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 479
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 15
- Task assigned
- 1
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