OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14470488
WARD FOUNDRY
BLOSSBURG, PA—
Event description
Employee dies of cardiopulmonary system failure
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an oven operator, was charging an oven. He was between the feed end s of ovens #2 and #3 when he collapsed onto the floor, apparently due to acute m yocardial anoxia. He died after suffering a myocardial arrhythmia, which could n ot be stopped.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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