Incident date: 2018-07-12
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was performing maintenance work on top of a pickle line tank with the lid off when he became very hot and had difficulty breathing due to heat or hydrochloric acid exposure. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substances, unspecified
code_source: title: Hydrogen chloride, hydrochloric acid
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate