Incident date: 2018-08-12
NAICS industry code: 452112

An employee was assisting a customer when a bleach container fell out of the customer's cart and ruptured upon contact with the floor. As the employee was calling for cleanup and guarding the spill, she experienced an asthma attack from the bleach vapors, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate