Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Fire Fighter Suffers Fatal Heart Attack While Performing Physical Fitness Training in Missouri

摘要

On January 21, 2003, a 50-year-old male Captain was lifting weights and walking on a treadmill as part of the Fire Department's voluntary physical fitness program when he began to suffer chest pains. After alerting his crew members, he was treated and transported to the hospital. While enroute, he suffered a cardiac arrest. Despite ALS and CPR performed by crew members in the ambulance and hospital personnel inside the ED, the victim died. NIOSH was notified of this fatality on January 22, 2003, by the United States Fire Administration. NIOSH contacted the affected Fire Department on January 27, 2003, to obtain further information and on July 18, 2003, to initiate the investigation. On July 28, 2003, a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist from the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Team traveled to Missouri to conduct an on-site investigation of the incident.