Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant worker died from acute myocardial infarction!

This is a web news article from MBS news on 1/11/2012 about the death of a nuclear power plant worker on the 9th of this month.

東京電力は、福島第一原発で９日、作業中に体調不良を訴え病院に運ばれた男性作業員が死亡したと発表しました。  

Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced that a male nuclear power plant worker at Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant who had complained of feeling ill and had been transported to a hospital on the 9th died.  

東京電力によりますと、今月９日の午後２時２０分頃、福島第一原発の敷地内でコンクリートを流し込む作業をしていた６０代の男性作業員が体調不良を訴えました。 

According to TEPCO, around 2:20pm on the 9th, the male worker in his sixties who was working on pouring concrete in the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant premise complained that he was not feeling well. 

男性は敷地内にある医療室で手当てを受けましたが、すでに意識はなく心肺停止状態だったため、いわき市内の病院に運ばれましたが午後５時過ぎ、死亡したということです。死因は急性心筋梗塞で、発表が２日遅れになったことについて東京電力は、１１日になって男性が死亡したと病院から連絡を受けたためだと説明しました。 

He received treatment in a medical room located at the premise, but he was already unconscious and in an state of respiratory arrest so he was transported to the hospital in Iwaki city, but he died after 5:00pm on that day. The cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, and TEPCO explained the reason why the announcement was 2 days delayed was because they were informed by hospital about his death on the 11th. 

男性は５月から福島第一原発で働いていますが、外部被ばく線量は６ミリシーベルトで、体から放射性物質は検出されておらず、東京電力は「被ばくとの因果関係はない」としています。 

He had been working at the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant since May, but his external radiation dose was 6mSv and radioactive materials were not found on his body, so TEPCO said "there was no causal relationship with radiation exposure." 

福島第一原発では、去年５月にも作業にあたっていた６０代の男性作業員が心筋梗塞で死亡しています。（11日20:21） 

Another male nuclear power plant worker in his sixties also died from acute myocardial infarction at the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant last May. (11th 20:21)

There is no causal relationship between the cause of this death and radiation exposure? Really? Can they statistically support that there is no increase of risk of this type of death compared to different work environments? I have worked in a large company before and two such deaths so close together would be striking enough to merit some investigation. However, apparently TEPCO does not value the lives of these individuals (or ANY individuals) enough to look into the matter.

If you would like to read the original Japanese news, here is the URL:

http://www.mbs.jp/news/jnn_4924770_zen.shtml