Incident date: 2016-09-07
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was threading and preparing to install a fire water pipe when several employees began to experience respiratory irritation. A visible plume of hydrofluoric acid gas was in the vicinity. The crew began evacuating the unit and an employee was hospitalized for treatment.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Hydrogen fluoride, hydrofluoric acid
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate