Incident date: 2018-03-31
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee entered a tower and was vacuuming out adsorbent that was stuck to the inside walls when the adsorbent became detached from the wall and engulfed the employee. The employee suffered upper body trauma and partial asphyxiation, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Engulfment in other collapsing material
code_source: title: Silica
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate