Incident date: 2017-09-20
NAICS industry code: 331492

An employee was adding ruthenium to a reactor when a chemical reaction occurred and released vapors. The employee suffered chemical inhalation burns and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Multiple chemicals or chemical mixtures, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate