Incident date: 2019-10-17
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was on top of a tanker truck using a tape measure to check the depth of the waste blood being pumped into the tanker. He was later found unresponsive laying near the open hatch of the truck with his right arm and head in the access hole on top of the tanker truck. He also had a cut on his forehead and suffered possible exposure to hydrogen sulfide.

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