Incident date: 2016-01-24
NAICS industry code: 238330

An employee was installing tile flooring on the second floor of a new construction residential townhouse. The employee brought a generator inside the townhouse and left it on the first floor with the front door open, but the door was later closed by the wind. The employee started to feel nauseous and dizzy and eventually lost consciousness. He was hospitalized with 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: moderate