Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221496656

GARDA CL WEST, INC.

Event
Firearm, Gun, Gunfire, Gunshot, Security Guard, Shot, Workplace Violence
NAICS
561613
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346220650
Employer profile
GARDA CL WEST, INC.
Summary number
221496656
Report ID
0950614

Event description

Employee is shot and killed

Investigation abstract

At 11:40 a.m. on September 7, 2022, an employee, an armed guard, was exiting a medical when a person came up behind him and shot him in the upper torso above his bulletproof vest. The attacker robbed the employee of the items that he had just picked up at four locations inside the medical center. The employee was treated at the medical center and then transferred to another medical center, where he died the following day.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 60 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    255

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