Accident Report Detail
Accident: 170097646 - Employee Dies Of Apparent Heart Attack And Heat Exhaustion
Accident: 170097646 -- Report ID: 1055350 -- Event Date: 07/27/1998 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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115301350 | 09/30/1998 | 0175 | Potentiality Inc | ||||
On July 23, 1998, Employee #1, who was in charge of approximately a dozen workers in an orchard, was pulling suckers off fruit trees. He began to feel ill and went to his cabin to lay down. A few hours later he was found unresponsive in his cabin; Employee #1 had died of ventricular dysrhythmia. It was a hot day, and the coroner's report indicated that hyperthermia may have contributed to his death. | |||||||
Keywords:
heart, heat, agriculture, heart attack, heat exhaustion, high temperature
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 115301350 | Fatality | Other | Occupation not reported |