Dip ?11 Strip 
Red Bank, TN 127343465

Narrative

On 8/24/99, 21 call was received ?rorn the TOSHA Management in Nashville, concerning an
alleged fatality at the above facility. This call was received via telephone message left after work
hours CST in the Nashville of?ce on 8/23/99, a-parent of the employee l??atality. An
inspection was made immediately on receipt of this information on 8/24/99. The management
was very cooperative and stated that an employee had passeduout in the workplace on 8/18/99,
was taken to Erlanger Medical Center, immediately, had been determined to have died of an
aneulysm on 8/19/99, and was buried on 8/21/99. The empioyce was a white 18-year?old male
youth, approximately weighing 150 1133., and 5 feet, 9 inches tall, that had worked at this
establishment, as a part time employee for approximately two years, before becoming a full time
employee alter graduation from high school this spring. The employee did not smoke, drink
alcoholic beverages, use drugs of any type, but was a heavy user of snuff tobacco, presently, the
Shoal brand loose cliputype tobacco, reportedly. The employee had begun work around 7:00 am
On the morning ot?8/18/99, seemed to have behaved normally, and was last seen and
communicated with around 11:45 am this same morning, when everyone else went to lunch in
the next room, through the closed door nearby. The employee was found, by the owner, at about
12:20 pm, bent over at the waist and down into the cold tank of methylene chloride (MC) wood
furniture stripping solution, with one gloved fore arm submerged down into the MC solution that
contained approximately, 70% MC, 8% toluene, 21% methanol, and 1% paraf?n wax. A new
drum ol?stripper had been added to this tank earlier this same morning and the tank solution was
approximately 9" deep, where the tank dimensioas where measured to be approximately

84 X42X24 inches, and this tank was elevated vertically from the floor level, 9 inches, via 4
concrete blocks and and 12/2 inch thick pieces of wood on the corners. The employee?s hair was
just touching the solution but his head was not submerged into or touching it, reportedly. His 
sockets were dark/black and his face was gray/white. The owner placed him onto a chair in an
upright sitting position, in the same general area, approximately, 12 feet from the tank. The
employee was not conscious, could not be revived and later laid horizontally on the floor were
the owner and another nearby shop owner administered First Aid and CPR. The emergency
medical technicians arrived shortly, thereafter, arti?cial respiration was begun, he was loaded
onto the ambulance, taken to Erlanger North Medical Center, and then air lifted to the Main
Erlangcr Medical Center. See the attached Erlanger Medical Records. Approximately, one year
prior to this occurrence this employee, while working part time during high school, had passed
out during this same work piece operation and was taken by this employer to Beacon Health Care
Services for treatment, See attached Beacon Health Care Services Medical records. The Red
Bank Police did not respond/investigate to the 911 call from the employer, as only the and
ambulance responded. No autopsy was performed after the employee expired, the diagnosis was
listed as an "suhnrachnoid hemorrhage, chemical inhalation injury," and the immediate cause of
death being ?cerebral edema 2 degree, anoxic injury."