     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON MAY 16, 1996 ABOUT 12:45 PM THE DECEASED WAS AT WORK AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE.  WHILE REMOVING THE ARM PINS FROM A BULLDOZER ITS BLADE DISENGAGED KNOCKING THE DECEASED OFF HIS FEET.  THE FRONT END OF THE BLADE PINNED HIS LEGS BETWEEN THE BULLDOZER AND THE FRONT END, CRUSHING THE LEG FROM THE KNEE DOWN.  HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PALMETTO HOSPITAL.  
     HE HAD SUSTAINED A SEVERE CRUSH INJURY OF THE TIBIA/FIBULAR AND UNDERWENT AN OPEN REDUCTION INTERNAL FIXATION WHICH WAS COMPLICATED BY AN INFECTION.
     ON JUNE 20, 1996 HE WAS ADMITTED TO CORAL GABLES HOSPITAL  AFTER COMPLAINING OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH, DIAPHORESIS AND A PRODUCTIVE COUGH.  HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PNUEMONIA, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, HYPOVOLEMIA AND HYPOTENSION AND TRNASFERED TO MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ON JUNE 21, 1996.
     HE WAS ADMITTED TO MOUNT SINAI FOR FURHTER WORK-UP OF POSSIBLE DISSECTING ANEURYSM OF THE THORACIC AORTA.  A RIGHT FEMORAL CLOT WAS DISCOVERED.  A CRADIAC CATHERIZATION WAS PERFORMED WHICH SHOWED AN EJECTION FRACTION OF 65%, BUT A MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION WAS RULED OUT.  CHEST X-RAY REVEALED SUBSEGMENTAL ATELECTASIS IN THE RIGHT LOWER LOBE.  HE WAS DISCHARGED ON JUNE 26, 1996 WITH THE DIAGNOSIS OF HYPOTENSION, ANEMIA, CHEST PAIN AND PERICARDITIS.       
     ON AUG. 13, 1996 HE HAD A REVISION OF AN OPEN REDUCTION INTERNAL FIXATION SURGICAL PROCEDURE PERFORMED AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AFTER DEVELOPING DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS. HE WAS DISCHARGED ON AUG. 23, 1996.      
     ON AUG. 27, 1996 HE WAS ADMITTED TO HEALTH SOUTH DOCTOR'S HOSPITAL AFTER COMPLAINING OF CHEST PAIN, COUGH AND FEVER.  ON AUG. 29, 1996 AN ATRIAL LINE  AND PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER WAS INSERTED.  AT 4:30 AM HE BECAME HYPOTENSIVE AND WENT INTO RESPIRATORY ARREST.  HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SEPTIC SHOCK.  AT 6:10 AM HE WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND DESPITE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 6:10 AM.   
     