Incident date: 2025-07-15
NAICS industry code: 325199

An employee was wearing full PPE while emptying a 55-gallon drum of phosphorus pentoxide and fainted, collapsing and striking their head against the ground. The employee was hospitalized and it is likely that heat caused by wearing full body PPE contributed to fainting.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat  unspecified
code_source: title: Heat environmental
code_nature: title: Heat stroke, syncope
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate