Worker at Fukushima nuclear plant dies of heart attack via Japan Today

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Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said the 57-year-old man suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday while working on the installation of a tank to store contaminated water.

He arrived at the nuclear plant at 5:35 a.m. and started work around 9 a.m., TEPCO officials said.

He informed his superiors that he was feeling unwell and was taken off duty and told to lie down and rest 50 minutes later. At around 10:35 a.m., he was found unconscious and was taken to a hospital in nearby Iwaki. He was confirmed dead by hospital doctors, company spokesman Jun Oshima said, adding it was not believed radiation from the broken reactors had played a part.

“As far as we know, he is the fifth person to have died after falling sick during work at the plant since the accident,” Oshima said.

“It doesn’t seem that there was a causal link between his death and radiation because he died of a heart attack,” he said.

The man was an employee at a subcontractor for Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd. He began working at the Fukushima plant in August last year.

The cumulative radiation dose the worker received was measured at 25.24 millisieverts, Oshima said.

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