Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200041887 - Employee Dies from Heart Disease and Positional Asphyxia

Accident Summary Nr: 200041887 -- Report ID: 0653510 -- Event Date: 04/10/2011
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
315434746	04/13/2011	5399	452910	Walmart

Abstract: On April 10, 2011, Employee #1 was a maintenance worker. A pallet with boxes of tissue paper was raised on the forks of a forklift to a storeroom shelf approximately 10 ft above the floor. Employee #1 was moving boxes while standing on the pallet. He suffered a heart attack and fell to the pallet. He landed in an awkward position, with his upper body hanging from the pallet. The medical investigator determined that positional asphyxia contributed to the death of Employee #1. He also suffered from hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Keywords: CARDIOVASC SYSTEM, HEART, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, ASPHYXIATED, HEART ATTACK, CARDIAC ARREST, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, CARDIOVASC DISEASE, PALLET, ELEVATED WORK PLAT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	315434746			Fatality	Other	Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers

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