Incident date: 2018-07-07
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was checking the chlorine levels in a therapy pool. A cover was removed so that chlorine tablets could be added; chlorine gas was released and the employee breathed it in. Suffering respiratory distress, the employee was hospitalized about 7 hours later.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate