Abstract: Employee #1, a furniture stripper assisted moving furniture and plywood within a facility. Employee #1 had used a methylene chloride based stripping solution earlier that morning. Employee #1 experienced a massive heart attack and died. Methylene chloride can exacerbate underlying heart disease in certain individuals and lead to a premature heart attack. The employee was 46 years old and there were reportedly no indications of pre-existing heart disease. As part of OSHA's accident investigation, air sampling was performed at the stripping operation. Methylene chloride concentrations were 46 ppm as an eight-hour time-weighted average and up to 159 ppm as a short-term exposure which exceed OSHA's PEL and STEL.