Incident date: 2019-09-20
NAICS industry code: 721110

An employee inhaled chlorine from chlorine tablets he was retrieving. The next day, on reporting to work, he experienced burning in his throat and lungs when taking deep breaths. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate