Incident date: 2023-11-15
NAICS industry code: 623110

An employee was loading an ammonia-based sanitizer into a commercial dishwashing machine. The residual chlorine sanitizer in the detergent line reacted with the ammonia and created chloramine gas that the employee inhaled.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine compounds, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate