Incident date: 2019-09-27
NAICS industry code: 333314

An employee picked up a beverage bottle that had previously fallen from a janitor's cart and drank from it. The bottle contained a blue liquid that was a disinfectant cleaning solution. The employee suffered chemical burns to the throat and esophagus and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ingestion of harmful substance
code_source: title: Disinfectants
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate