Incident date: 2015-10-28
NAICS industry code: 238990

A housekeeping employee was cleaning up a Formalin spill. The Formalin was covered with a spill-X absorbent to soak up the chemical.  As the employee was scooping up the absorbent her head started hurting, she felt dizzy, and she passed out.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Formaldehyde
code_nature: title: Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate