Incident date: 2015-12-09
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was helping a patient in the hyperbaric chamber. The patient started seizing and the employee had to rapidly decompress the chamber, which resulted in the employee suffering an air embolism and decompression illness. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to change in air pressure
code_source: title: Pressurized air-environmental
code_nature: title: Caisson disease, bends, divers' palsy
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate