A beloved husband died after suffering a blood clot which caused him to fall off a ladder while doing jobs in the garden.
Donald Bloor, 81, went out into the garden to do jobs as he often would at his home on Prestbury Road in Macclesfield, on the morning of May 16 this year, an inquest heard.
He told his wife Barbara that he was going outside and set up a ladder against a shed, an inquest at Macclesfield Town Hall heard.
But while on the ladder, Mr Bloor, a retired joiner, suffered from a pulmonary embolism - a blockage in the artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs, which caused him to fall off the ladder, the inquest heard.
He suffered injuries as he fell and paramedics who attended the scene were not able to save him.
Jean Harkin, assistant coroner for Cheshire, said: “Mr Bloor went out of his house to do jobs which he did often. It was while on the ladder he suffered a pulmonary embolism from a deep vein thrombosis that caused him to fall off a ladder and sustain multiple injuries.
“He died from natural causes which caused him to fall off the ladder and sustain multiple injuries which were a contributory factor.”
Donald’s wife Barbara Bloor, of Hope Street West in Macclesfield, attended the inquest with her daughter.
She told the inquest how she had found her husband after the fall.
She said: “Donald told me that he wanted to do a couple of jobs in the garden and went outside.
“I heard a bang and when I went outside Donald and was lying on the floor between the house and the outbuilding.
“The ladder had fallen sideways. I called his name but there was no response from Donald at all.”
Paramedics attended the house and tried to resuscitate Mr Bloor after he went into cardiac arrest on but he was pronounced dead at the scene at 11.22am.
PC Daniel Walton, attended the scene and carried out an investigation. He said: “I was first at the scene after the paramedics. I saw there was a ladder leaning against the shed which had fallen over.
“Mr Bloor was on his back on the floor and there was a lot of blood which had come from the paramedics making an incision to try and carry out an emergency procedure.
“I noted the ladder was at a steep angle and the shoes he was wearing were not suitable.”
Mrs Bloor told the inquest her husband was born in Macclesfied in May 1934 and went to school in the town. From the age of 15 he worked for a building firm and trained as a joiner. He and Barbara married in 1960.
The inquest heard he fell and broke his hip 15 years ago and was diagnosed with type two diabetes 10 years ago.
