71 Yo Man Has Heart Attack On Job Site Out Of Cell Service And My Company Hasn't Paid The Satellite Phone Bill.

My company works with volunteers (like habitat for humanity). But we work frequently in remote areas. We have satellite phones in all our trailers in case of emergencies. Long story short a 71 year old man had a heart attack on a job I was leading and I had to perform CPR while trying to dial out for EMS. He died on site. I was the only one with him on site, because I had sent my coworker into town for the materials we needed.

I couldn't reach EMS, as I later found out, due to our company not paying the satellite phone bill (they shut the service down in September and the incident occured in October. We were outside service that entire time). Since we do construction and operate heavy equipment, we need access to EMS due to the danger on the job site. The project manager never gave me a clear answer on why the phone bill was not paid. The last I got was 'I meant to leave that phone active, maybe the phone company accidentally shut off this phone instead of the other one I called to cancel' (paraphrased). Essentially we have 8 sat phones and when we're done for the year they shut them down and he or the phone company may have miscommunicated and shut down the wrong phone.

On the other hand this project manager has been screwing up all season (orders delivered to wrong job sites, underestimated jobs, wrong or short materials). It's been an absolute nightmare working under him. He's also known for cutting corners and moving money between different jobs to cover his screw ups. I don't know, but wonder if he shut the phone off early to save money.

Essentially what I'm asking is if this is worth pursuing. I spoke with the guys wife and couldn't bring myself to tell her about the sat phone because she was devastated. I'm sure she has a stronger case than I do. EMS response time for that area is 30 minutes, but I want able to get in contact with them for 40 minutes after he collapsed. I've never even thought about taking legal action for anything before, but I also want to find out what happened and why my company failed so bad.

As a side note, there was no investigation from our director into what happened with the sat phone and the project manager is still running projects with them. Any advice on any area regarding this would be much appreciated.