Incident date: 2018-05-09
NAICS industry code: 339999

Two employees were running a test on a prototype tankless water heater that ran on natural gas when the unit started to overheat. The carbon monoxide alarm sounded and the employees evacuated the room, but one employee was exposed to the gas and required hospitalization.

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