Incident date: 2017-02-07
NAICS industry code: 336399

An employee was attending a meeting in a conference room next to a laboratory. The lab was using xylene in a ventilated hood when the hood fan failed and xylene was released into the conference room. The employee suffered a respiratory allergic reaction and was hospitalized.

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