Incident date: 2018-05-26
NAICS industry code: 424910

An employee was filling a nurse tank with anhydrous ammonia. The employee noticed a small leak coming from the fill coupling and attempted to tighten it. The coupling popped off and the employee was exposed to anhydrous ammonia and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substances, unspecified
code_source: title: Ammonia, anhydrous ammonia
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate