OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221571540
HANCOCK VENTURES, LLC
BLACKFOOT, ID—
Event description
Employee dies from inhaling contaminated dust containing han
Investigation abstract
At 12:00 p.m. on March 1, 2023, an employee was conducting the demolition of a wall. The wall came down and exposed mouse infestation and fecal/dust contamination. The employee died due to suspected inhalation of contaminated mouse feces in the dust, i.e., dust containing hantavirus.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 37 F
- Event type
- 8
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.