OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #944405
TREE FELLING,HEART ATTACK
Event description
EMPLOYEE DIES OF HEART ATTACK AFTER CUTTING DOWN TREES
Investigation abstract
At about 10:15 a.m., Employee #1 was working as part of a crew employed by Asplu took him on to the hospital. Employee #1 died soon after arrival at the hospital . The County Medical Examiner requested an autopsy, the results of which are inc luded in this file. The Medical Examiner stated that the cause of death was prob able cardiac arrhythmia secondary to coronary artery occlusion. ndh Tree Expert Company. The crew was cutting down three trees on a work site. A nother employee had taken down the first two trees, and Employee #1 wanted to ta ke down the third tree. He proceeded to take the limbs off the tree, and then to ld his foreman that his side was bothering him. Employee #1 had been back to wor k for thirty days after being out of work. The foreman had Employee #1 lie down with a cool cloth on his head. After the rest of the crew had finished the tree, Employee #1 was not responding. Crew members were taking Employee #1 home, when they ran into an ambulance. Because Employee #1 had passed out, the paramedics
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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