OSHA investigators arrived in Tahoma, CA on Tuesday, July 18th 2017 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at California Department Of Parks And Recreation. A 22 year old man working as a was injured on the job when the employee becomes ill with hantavirus and was placed in an ind
Accident Date2017-07-05
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 10:00 a.m. on July 6, 2017, an employee who lived at the Gregory House within the Bodie State Historic Park and was the first to occupy the residence. Maintenance personnel had cleaned and disinfected the house for Hantavirus and cleared it for occupancy, prior to his arrival. The employee worked at the Park outdoors and indoors in various occupied buildings that had been cleaned and disinfected. In addition, he explored unoccupied buildings, which had not been cleaned and disinfected, to search for artifacts. The employee complained of a high fever and not feeling well. The employee went to a nearby medical facility that released him within a few hours. The employee's condition worsened and his parents took him to a larger medical facility where the employee was placed in an induced coma and was positively identified as having Hantavirus.