Cause of Death of the Fuku-I Worker: Heart Attack

As always, there is no connection between the death and the fact that he had worked at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant since May last year, according to TEPCO.

He must have died of stress, Mr. Shinzo Kimura and other experts may say.

For some unknown reason, it took 2 days since he had died for the information to be released by TEPCO.

From Jiji Tsushin News (1/11/2012):

東京電力は１１日、福島第１原発で９日午後に倒れ、心肺停止状態で福島県いわき市内の病院に運ばれた協力企業の６０代男性作業員について、搬送直後の同日夕、急性心筋梗塞で死亡していたと発表した。作業員は放射性物質を含む汚泥の貯蔵施設の建設作業に従事していた。遺族から元請け企業経由で１１日午後に死亡の連絡があったという。

TEPCO announced on January 11 that the worker from an affiliate company in his 60s who collapsed on January 9 afternoon at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and was transported to a hospital in Iwaki City in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest died of acute myocardial infarction in the evening of January 9. The worker engaged in the construction of the storage facility for radioactive sludge. According to TEPCO, the family of the deceased notified the subcontractor who notified TEPCO in the afternoon of January 11.

　東電によると、作業員はコンクリートを使う建設作業の経験が長く、同原発では昨年５月から働いて外部被ばく線量は計約６ミリシーベルト、内部被ばく線量は計０．０１ミリシーベルトだった。東電は死亡との因果関係はないとみている。

According to TEPCO, the worker had long worked in the construction jobs using concrete. He had been at Fukushima I Nuke Plant since May last year, and his cumulative external radiation exposure was about 6 millisieverts, and the internal radiation exposure was 0.01 millisievert. TEPCO thinks there is no relationship between the death [and the radiation expposure of the worker].

Well, those are the "official" numbers. We now know how the workers get around the radiation limit by doing some tricks to lower the radiation on the survey meters. Besides, in the early days of the crisis, the survey meters were not available for every workers, because the survey meters at the plant had been swept away in the tsunami.

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