Incident date: 2019-10-09
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was removing bolts from a flanged cooling water pipe connection. When the last bolt was removed, a surge of blast furnace gas came out of the pipe, exposing the employee to carbon monoxide.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Carbon monoxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate