Friday, July 23, 1999
Ill worker died from choking, coroner rules
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
UNION TOWNSHIP — Butler County Coroner Dr. Richard P. Burkhardt on Thursday ruled that a 24-year-old construction worker died after choking on his own vomit during his lunch break.
Dr. Burkhardt said an autopsy revealed that the lungs of James Haenning of Okeana were filled with vomitus, which Mr. Haenning had apparently aspirated, or sucked into his lungs.
Mr. Haenning was found unconscious Wednesday afternoon in a dump truck at a worksite on Muhlhauser Road, then was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital Fairfield.
Dr. Burkhardt said Mr. Haenning had apparently just finished eating his lunch when he became ill. Dr. Burkhardt said there was no sign of alcohol use. Drug test results were not yet available Thursday.
Union Township Assistant Fire Chief Mike Mays said paramedics who rushed to attend Mr. Haenning around 1 p.m. ruled out a heat-related death because there were no signs of heat stroke.
The paramedics' initial evaluation as to cause of death was cardiac arrest, but they have no idea what might have stopped Mr. Haenning's heart, said Mr. Mays.
A family member, who requested anonymity, described Mr. Haenning, who was a farmer who also worked for his father's excavation company, as healthy.
Dr. Burkhardt said Mr. Haenning was “an apparently healthy guy” with no history of medical problems.
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