Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221493091

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Event
Assembly Line, Automobile, Heart, Natural Causes, Seizure, Walking Surface
NAICS
336111
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346188311
Employer profile
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Summary number
221493091
Report ID
0521700

Event description

Employee Dies Of Natural Causes

Investigation abstract

At 10:15 p.m. on August 29, 2022, an employee was sitting on a 21 inch platform while waiting for production to begin at an automobile manufacturing facility's chassis assembly line. The employee experienced a seizure and fell forward onto the walking and working surface. Emergency medical services (EMS) were contacted and transported the employee to the hospital, where he died. The medical examiner's report identified the cause of dead as natural causes and an enlarged heart.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 26 M

    Event type
    12

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