Incident date: 2015-10-23
NAICS industry code: 445110

A maintenance technician was repairing a Freon leak in the flora cooler.  The technician placed a fan at the cooler to disperse the Freon, but he was exposed to phosgene gas.  The technician became disoriented and almost passed out.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Phosgene
code_nature: title: Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate