Incident date: 2022-08-22
NAICS industry code: 517311

An employee was digging a hole by hand to repair a cable outage when he started feeling a burning sensation in his chest and got a headache. He had been digging for approximately two hours in 81 F heat and 70% humidity. The employee went home to rest and was later hospitalized for a heart attack.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources
code_source: title: Digging handtools-nonpowered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
code_body: title: Heart
severity: moderate