Incident date: 2024-06-16
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was working at his desk inside the manufacturing plant near a manual lathe machine that makes spare parts from metal. The machine has coolant that tested positive for Legionella that caused the employee to develop severe respiratory symptoms requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance  repeated or prolonged
code_source: title: Bacteria
code_nature: title: Legionnaires' disease
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate