Incident date: 2015-06-15
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was chipping off hardened chemical residue from the interior walls of a tank.  Twenty minutes into the second 30-minute rotation, he got out of the tank complaining about drowsiness and a severe headache. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substances, unspecified
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate