Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221574817

HEGLAR CREEK DAIRY, LLC

Event
Agriculture, Agriculture Machinery/Vehicle, Boiler, Carbon Monoxide, Cardiac Arrest, Cardiovasc System, Chemical, Chemical Exposure, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Gas, Heart, Heart Attack, Illness, Overexposure, Poisoning, Respiratory Tract, Unresponsive, Water Heater
NAICS
112120
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346791106
Employer profile
HEGLAR CREEK DAIRY, LLC
Summary number
221574817
Report ID
1032500

Event description

Employee dies in office from heart attack and CO poisoning

Investigation abstract

At 4:00 p.m. on June 18, 2023, an employee working as a laborer for a dairy farm poisoning. The exposure was found to have originated from the calf farm boiler/water heater. was in the office. The employee had worked that morning as office manager and needed to use the restroom. For the past two days, the employee had complained to his spouse of not feeling well. The employee went into the restroom and did not come out. A coworker discovered the employee dead hours later. The employee's death was ruled as from cardiac arrest. The next day two coworkers and the infant daughter of one became ill and were treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the hospital due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Later the coroner reported the employee died from a heart attack and carbon monoxide

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 67 M

    Event type
    12
    Occupation code
    889

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