Incident date: 2018-07-10
NAICS industry code: 561990

An employee was using a forklift to load a sterilization chamber with pallets of medical devices. As he drove out of the chamber, ethylene oxide gas exploded. The employee suffered second and third degree burns over his body and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Ethylene oxide
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate