A man got home after an evening out to find his friend slumped behind the door of the communal flats where they lived in Keighley, an inquest has heard.
Firefighters eventually had to take the wooden entrance door off its hinges to help paramedics trying to treat 56-year-old Paul Humphries, who had collapsed on November 30 last year.
The inquest in Bradford was told one of the last people to see him alive was a cab driver who picked him up from the Cavendish pub where he regularly drank in the town centre. He had to be helped into the cab but refused help when he got home to Temple Street.
Assistant Deputy Coroner Oliver Longstaff said Mr Humphries had the equivalent of about four and a half pints of beer in his system.
But he added: “Alcohol was not the direct cause of his death. This was a death due to a fall.”
Mr Longstaff recorded a verdict of accidental death.
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