Incident date: 2023-05-09
NAICS industry code: 562111

Employees were driving a work truck and collecting trash. A trash bag that contained pool chemicals was placed in the hopper and began smoking. The employees drove to the nearest open parking lot and extracted the trash bag from the hopper when the injured employee inhaled some of the  smoke. The employee was hospitalized for breathing complications and elevated vital signs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate