Incident date: 2019-02-11
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee took a sweeper outside because the sweeper had caught on fire. Maintenance came outside with a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. The extinguisher chemicals flew into the employee's face and the employee swallowed some of it. The employee was hospitalized with difficulty breathing.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate