Incident date: 2022-06-09
NAICS industry code: 325613

An employee cleaned a spill of chemicals including ester, amine, and amide. The employee then cleaned a spill of sodium sulfite which mixed in the disposal container with the chemicals from the previous spill. A chemical reaction resulted and the employee inhaled sulfur dioxide gas. The employee was hospitalized.

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