Incident date: 2017-08-03
NAICS industry code: 111331

An employee worked alone for an extended period of time in an enclosed cold storage room using a propane-fueled forklift to move, stack, and store pallets of peaches. The forklift had an exhaust issue, and the employee experienced an overexposure to carbon monoxide. The employee was hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Carbon monoxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate