Chapel Hill teacher’s heart attack sparks workers’ compensation fight

A Chapel Hill High School teacher says he suffered a heart attack shortly after rushing to put out a fire in a school bathroom, and now he is fighting to have his workers’ compensation claim covered.

This is Keith Cooper’s 33rd year teaching at Chapel Hill High School.

He says he was at work on Nov. 14, 2025, when a colleague told him there was a fire in the boys’ bathroom…

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