Incident date: 2023-10-05
NAICS industry code: 562219

An employee was picking up trash bags on a route and putting the bags in the back of a garbage truck. The employee was compacting the trash when one of the bags released vapor and dust from chlorine and pool cleaning chemicals. The vapor and dust contacted the employee's eyes and mouth and were inhaled. The employee was hospitalized with chemical irritation to the eyes and lungs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate