Tom Mansfield is a personal trainer from Great Britain at age 29. He ordered a 100-gram bag of caffeine powder to add to drinks. However, he made a mistake when measuring the dose on the scale and ended up drinking a fatal dose of the stimulant.
The recommended dose of caffeine powder was between 60 and 300 mg. But according to the BBC, the minimum value of the scale Mansfield used was 2 grams. The man ended up eating several grams of powder, the equivalent of 200 cups of coffee.
Immediately after consuming the drink on January 5, 2021, Mansfield grabbed his chest and said his heart was beating hard. Then foam came out of his mouth. His wife called an ambulance and the man was taken to the hospital with cardiac arrest. They tried to resuscitate him, but he died later that day.
The coroner found that Mansfield had a blood caffeine level of 392 mg per liter. According to the BBC, a typical caffeine level after drinking a cup of coffee is between 2 and 4 mg per liter.
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