Incident date: 2023-05-11
NAICS industry code: 561990

Two employees entered a confined space on a rail car to clean it. The atmosphere inside the confined space was oxygen deficient and also contained carbon monoxide. One employee was able to escape the confined space, but the second employee fainted inside the rail car. A third employee entered the rail car to hook up the employee that fainted and assist in the rescue. Two of the employees were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Carbon monoxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: low