Incident date: 2023-08-11
NAICS industry code: 623110

An employee was taking the trash out to an area outside of the building when they were exposed to legionella bacteria in the air from a nearby cooling tower. The employee developed pneumonia and was hospitalized with Legionnaire's disease.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Bacteria
code_nature: title: Pneumonia
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate