OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221480031

KGV UTILITIES LLC

HOUSTON, TX— 2022-07-19T00:00:00

Event: Cable, Cardiac Arrest, Conduit, Heart Attack, Natural Causes, Unresponsive
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346089683
Employer profile: KGV UTILITIES LLC
Summary number: 221480031
Report ID: 0626600

Event description

Employee dies of natural causes

Investigation abstract

At 4:00 p.m. on July 19, 2022, Employee #1 was about to torch an underground conduit to pull newly installed fiber optics cabling. He was not with or around electrical wires. Employee #1 was found unresponsive by a coworker, with half his body (head first) in the small hole he was working in. The hole was 3.5 feet deep by 3 feet wide. The employee died of natural causes, i.e., heart attack, according to the medical examiner's report.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 49 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
889

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.