Incident date: 2017-12-27
NAICS industry code: 561740

Three employees were using a cleaning vehicle to clean a bay floor inside a garage. The employees felt nauseous, lightheaded and weak after running the gasoline-powered cleaning equipment for approximately two hours with the garage doors closed. Two employees were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Carbon monoxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: low