Incident date: 2017-09-20
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was witnessing a vehicle test when a lithium-ion battery caught on fire. The employee inhaled smoke from the fire and chemical fumes from the halon extinguisher used to put out the fire.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Battery-vehicle
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate