Incident date: 2017-01-12
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was installing an aerator for a residential septic tank system when he became trapped in the aerator precast risers for approximately 26 hours with overnight temperatures below 30 degrees. He suffered kidney failure, hypothermia, frost bite, and edema.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental cold
code_source: title: Cold-environmental
code_nature: title: Hypothermia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate