Incident date: 2018-08-31
NAICS industry code: 238910

At 3:11 a.m. on August 31, 2018, while working in a manhole, an employee was overcome by an unknown air contaminant and lost consciousness. A second employee entered the manhole to rescue the first, but also lost consciousness. One of the employees was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate