Incident date: 2017-02-17
NAICS industry code: 325180

An employee was weighing out potassium cyanide and walking it to the lab hood. The employee suffered acute potassium cyanide poisoning. A proper respirator was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Cyanide and cyanide compounds, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate