Incident date: 2023-11-14
NAICS industry code: 237120

Two employees were digging up and capping old gas lines. They were exposed to bird droppings and suffered histoplasmosis, a respiratory infection. Both employees were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Fungi, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Mycoses, n.e.c.
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: low