Incident date: 2015-09-28
NAICS industry code: 334510

A worker poured isopropyl alcohol into an acid waste container, causing a reaction that produced acid gas. An employee working in an adjacent room was overcome by the vapors and suffered restricted breathing, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Nitric acid
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate