Incident date: 2017-02-05
NAICS industry code: 621991

An employee was responding to an emergency call after a liquid nitrogen leak at a laboratory. When the employee entered the lab to close the valves, the employee inhaled nitrogen, suffering hypoxia and loss of consciousness. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Nitrogen
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate