August 31, 2020 Louisiana Department of Health verifies one additional hurricane-related death

- The Louisiana Department of Health on Monday verifies one additional death tied to Hurricane Laura, bringing the state’s current death toll to 15.

A 49-year-old man in Rapides Parish died from blunt force trauma while cutting down a tree. 

Below are details on the 15 deaths LDH has verified to date:

Cleaning up your home after a storm can be a big job, and can put you at greater risk of injury. 

Wear the right safety gear, including hard hats, goggles, respirator masks with higher protection levels, heavy work gloves, waterproof boots with steel toe and insole (not just steel shank), earplugs or protective headphones if working with noisy equipment, and at least two fire extinguishers each with a UL rating of at least 10A. If sewage cleanup is involved, wear rubber boots and gloves and safety goggles.

Be sure to take care of yourself: 

Anyone involved in storm cleanup should have had a booster dose of tetanus-diphtheria vaccine within the past 10 years. 

Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, M.D.

Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein

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