Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200272052 - Truck Driver Suffers from Heart Attack

Accident Summary Nr: 200272052 -- Report ID: 0524500 -- Event Date: 12/29/2009
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312890726	12/29/2009	4231	488490	Usf Holland Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 4:20 a.m. on December 29, 2009, a truck driver with USF Holland, Inc. for several years, had backed a trailer up to a loading dock and then worked inside the building in the dock area loading and unloading the trailer. The employee finished working the dock and went to the driver seat of the cab, attached to the trailer, to prepare to depart. A fire started in the cab of the truck and was noticed by another worker. Firefighters were called and found the driver dead in the burned tractor-trailer. According to the coroner, the driver died of a heart attack.

Keywords: CARDIOVASC SYSTEM, HEART, HEART ATTACK, FIRE, TRUCK, TRACTOR TRAILER, TRUCK DRIVER

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	312890726			Fatality	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Occupation not reported

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