Incident date: 2020-09-06
NAICS industry code: 333415

Company employees were onsite, cutting and dismantling components of the ammonia system in preparation for demolition. An employee was exposed to ammonia when he cut a line that still had ammonia left in the pipe. The employee was hospitalized due to respiratory system problems.

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