By Janet Brindle Reddick
Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, FLa. — Emergency 911 calls released Friday evening by the Orlando Fire Department revealed that a Universal Orlando employee used an external defibrillator to try to resuscitate a co-worker who was found without a pulse in the rafters of a ride early Tuesday.
Leopoldo Buenaventura, 60, of Kissimmee was discovered in the rafters of the Men In Black: Alien Attack ride, Fire Department spokeswoman Ashley Papagni said this week.
The first caller to emergency dispatchers at 2:23 a.m. reported that there was a “team member who is unconscious.” The same person called back with updated information and said the victim would need to be extricated from the ride.
Later calls revealed that another staff member was able to climb up a set of stairs to reach Buenaventura to deploy an AED, so firefighters would not need a ladder truck to reach him.
“So CPR is in progress?” a female dispatcher asks the caller.
“10-4,” the man responds calmly.
Buenaventura was taken to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Papagni said. He did not survive.
Orlando police said on Tuesday that the incident did not appear to be suspicious.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death. An agency spokesman said OSHA would not investigate if was clearly due to natural causes and not work-related.
An autopsy was conducted Tuesday, but the cause of death has not been determined, said Sheri Blanton, a spokeswoman for the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner’s Office.
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