Incident date: 2016-06-28
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a pump to a commercial washing machine. After using water to prime the pump, the employee ran the cleaning fluid to the pump. Residual water with cleaning product was caught in a hand-held container. The employee inhaled the cleaning product odor and experienced respiratory tract irritation and distress.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Cleaning and polishing agents, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate