Incident date: 2019-12-11
NAICS industry code: 622110

Employees were working in the sterilization department. A motor which controlled the ventilation of ethylene oxide failed. Six employees were hospitalized for exposure to ethylene oxide.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Ethylene oxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: low