Incident date: 2024-09-10
NAICS industry code: 562211

An employee was pressure washing a vacuum box when she began feeling ill, nauseous, and developed a headache, elevated heart rate, and chills. The employee was hospitalized due to possible benzene exposure. The employee was wearing PPE at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to harmful substances  unspecified
code_source: title: Benzene
code_nature: title: Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate