Incident date: 2019-12-03
NAICS industry code: 331110

Two employees were installing a blank line inside of a coke oven when the emissions line water seal broke, exposing the employees to the coke oven emissions. The employees experienced elevated carboxyhemoglobin from carbon monoxide overexposure and were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Carbon monoxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: low